Halfway Home

Thoughts from Midlife

Christina Myers

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House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
04 July 2024

Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Gender studies: women

Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapid social, cultural, and environmental change.

Modern midlife is finding oneself halfway home but without any reliable maps for the route ahead. With wit and warmth, these personal essays move from a first bra to first hot flashes to consider the lessons we learn through media and cultureand from each otherabout bodies, sexuality, fatphobia, gender roles, and what we should want in life. Christina Myers explores the ways that beauty standards and cultural expectations around femininity have shaped our identities and how we might shed those going forward; the power of friendships and the value of having other women to learn from; the anxiety of moving through motherhood into menopause in a time of global environmental crisis and political upheaval; and the uncertainty of how this stage of life should unfold, as old systems shift and crumble. Though our maps for midlife are never identical, we discover familiar paths and common landmarks in each other's stories; these essays remind us there are others on this trail with us, just behind or just ahead, out of sight. We are not alone.

By: Christina Myers
Imprint: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm,
Weight: 190g
ISBN: 9781487012441
ISBN 10: 1487012446
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 04 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CHRISTINA MYERS is a writer, editor, and former journalist. She is the author of the novel The List of Last Chances, winner of the Canadian Book Club Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour, and editor of the award-winning anthology BIG. An alumnus of the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University, she now teaches creative writing through SFU’s continuing studies. She is a member of Da’naxda’xw First Nation and lives in Surrey, British Columbia.

Reviews for Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife

“Epiphanies abound in Halfway Home. Some are bittersweet, many are funny, and most will give readers pause, if only to see that others grapple with such thoughts too.” — Literary Review of Canada ""In Halfway Home Myers has unlocked the whispers of the universe."" — British Columbia Review