{"product_id":"the-middlepause-isbn-9781936787340","title":"The Middlepause","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e Benjamin deftly and brilliantly examines the losses and unexpected gains she experienced in menopause. Menopause is a mind and body shift as monumental and universal as puberty, yet far less often discussed, especially in public, which is what makes Benjamin's work here so urgently necessary.\" —Kate Tuttle, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vision of contentment in middle age, without sentiment or delusion. Marina Benjamin weighs the losses and opportunities of our middle years, taking inspiration from literature, science, philosophy, and her own experience. Spurred by her surgical propulsion into a sudden menopause, she finds ways to move forward while maintaining clear–eyed acknowledgment of the challenges of aging. Attending to complicated elderly parents and a teenaged daughter, experiencing bereavement, her own health woes, and a fresh impetus to give, Benjamin emerges into a new definition of herself as daughter, mother, citizen, and woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e's many wise observations about no longer being young: \"\"I am discovering that I care less about what other people think.\"\" \"\"My needs are leaner and my storehouse fuller.\"\" \"\"It is not possible to fully appreciate what it means to age without attending to what the body knows. . . . I have always had a knee–jerk distaste for the idea that age is all in the mind.\"\" \"\"You need a cohort of peers to go through the aging process with you. A cackle of crones! A cavalry!\"\" Marina Benjamin's memoir will serve as a comfort, a companion to women going through the too–seldom–spoken of physical and mental changes in middle age and beyond.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause \u003c\/i\u003eby Marina Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e Benjamin deftly and brilliantly examines the losses and unexpected gains she experienced in menopause. Menopause is a mind and body shift as monumental and universal as puberty, yet far less often discussed, especially in public, which is what makes Benjamin's work here so urgently necessary.\"—Kate Tuttle,  \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Women do a lot of things to mark turning fifty. Go to a resort! Have a bang–up party! Far, far better: read \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e.\" —Jill Lepore, staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History of Wonder Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eloquent and intelligent . . . This is a measured and beautifully written critique of menopause and middle age that pre–, mid–, and postmenopausal women will find eminently relatable, and that those who love and care for them will likewise appreciate.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Piercingly intelligent and bracingly honest.\"\" —\u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We are not supposed to beguile, we the middle–aged women. But with \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause, \u003c\/i\u003eMarina Benjamin does that: she beguiles and entrances with a lyrical, thoughtful, erudite, and always lucid exploration of the middle years of her life, and what they mean to her, and what middle–aged women mean to society.\" —Rose George, author of \u003ci\u003eNinety Percent of Everything \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Big Necessity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Intimate, open–hearted, clever and kind, this book is a companion which, by naming the shadow fears, finds the truer gold.\" —Jay Griffiths, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wild: An Elemental Journey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause \u003c\/i\u003eis indeed intellectual and cultivated, Benjamin also speaks directly to a sense of communal, lived experience. . . . She writes so perceptively about the familiar that she effortlessly freshens and elevates it.\" —Isabel Berick, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I loved this candid and beautifully written 'wrinkles and all' meditation on the middle years.\" —Caroline Sanderson, \u003ci\u003eThe Bookseller\u003c\/i\u003e, Editor's Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Benjamin takes the process of self–help thoughtfully. For starters, to recognise change, rather than deny it, is to begin to deal with it.\" —Iain Finlayson, \u003ci\u003eSaga Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For emotional honesty, look to a midlife memoir from Marina Benjamin.\" —Tom Gatti, \u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, The books to look out for in 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This gentle but honest book should be standard reading for friends and loved–ones of women trying to make sense of this transitional stage in life.\" —Sue Wright, \u003ci\u003eThe Malcontent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lucid and sophisticated. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause \u003c\/i\u003eis a restrained but wonderful guide to the convulsive changes of 50 and over. . . . This is a book that yields valuable insights on almost every page.\" —Melissa Benn, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e, Marina Benjamin takes a candid look at what it means to be 50 today. . . . It's warm, wise and beautifully written.\" —\u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book does not contain advice on diet, yoga, emollients or wardrobe makeovers. Marina Benjamin instead pursues an intellectual perspective of her journey to 50. . . . As a means of inducting younger women into the business of getting older, this is a welcome narrative.\" —Deirdre Conroy, \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent \u003c\/i\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e isn't some deluding self–help book that insists middle–age is a time of great growth for us all. It's an accurate and thoughtful assessment of the credit and debit sheet, and it remains emotionally genuine throughout. . . . This is a thoughtful, compassionate and wise book.\" —\u003ci\u003eShiny New Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarina Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous memoirs, \u003ci\u003eRocket Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, short–listed for the Eugene Emme Award, and \u003ci\u003eLast Days in Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e, long–listed for the Wingate Prize. She lives in London and is currently a senior editor at the digital magazine \u003ci\u003eAeon\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300688384229,"sku":"NP9781936787340","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781936787340.jpg?v=1767740501","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-middlepause-isbn-9781936787340","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}