Product details
Publisher: Random House Canada (Oct. 27, 2020)
Language: English
Hardcover: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 0735279977
ISBN-13: 978-0735279971
Item Weight: 363 g
Dimensions : 13.92 x 2.13 x 21.03 cm
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Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist, and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny, heartfelt, and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity, and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.
Digging deep into her strengths, her failures, and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, but it's also a hell of a lot of fun: "Being the age I am--that so many women are--is just the best time of my life."
Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hate, to show her younger self--and all of us--that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose--not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures."
