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The New Old Me

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Autobiography / Memoir
Unabridged   9 hour(s)
Publication date: 03/14/2017

The New Old Me

My Late-Life Reinvention

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Audio CD ISBN:9781681685618
Digital Download ISBN:9781681685625

Summary

For readers of Anne Lamott, Abigail Thomas, and Ayelet Waldman, a post-divorce memoir, one woman’s story of starting over at 60—in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood.

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Product Description

After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life’s savings, and the collapse of her once-happy marriage, Meredith Maran—whom Anne Lamott calls “insightful, funny, and human”—leaves her San Francisco freelance writer’s life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles. Determined to rebuild not only her savings but herself while relishing the joys of life in La-La land, Maran writes “a poignant story, a funny story, a moving story, and above all an American story of what it means to be a woman of a certain age in our time” (Christina Baker Kline, number-one New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train).

Reviews/Praise

"A spirited and moving memoir about how 'it's never too late to try something new.'" —Kirkus Reviews

"Meredith Maran's memoir about her recent experiences navigating life's sudden shifts and tilts and swerves, is funny, tough, sweet, and always charming." —Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings

"A funny, seasoned take on dashed illusions." —O Magazine

Author Bio

Meredith Maran is the author of fifteen books, including Why We Write and Why We Write About Ourselves. She's a book critic and essayist for newspapers and magazines including the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon.com. The recipient of fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo and a member of the National Book Critics Circle, she lives in Los Angeles.