A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and
inevitable courses of midlife.
Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn't end up in rehab,
prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty,
every hair's root is a symbol of knowledge (she knows how to use a
landline), experience (she rode in a car with no seat belts), and
superpowers (a gray-haired lady can get away with anything).
Though navigating midlife is initially upsetting--the cracking noises
coming from her new old body, receiving regular junk mail from
mortuaries--Laurie accepts it. And then some. With unintentional
abandon, she shoplifts a bag of russet potatoes. Heckles a rude driver
from her beat-up Prius. And engages in epic trolling on Nextdoor.com.
That, says Laurie, is the brilliance of growing older. With each passing
day, you lose an equivalent amount of fear.
And the #1 New York Times bestselling author has never been so
fearlessly funny as she is in this empowering, candid, and enlightening
memoir about living life on the other side of fifty.