Details

Edition

First hardcover edition.

Description

213 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"With signature "sharp wit" (NPR), Annabelle Gurwitch gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proving that our no-frills new normal doesn't mean a deficit of humor. In these essays, Gurwitch embraces homesharing, welcoming a housing-insecure young couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary, she relearns to parent, one pronoun at a time. She wades into the dating pool with a reupholstered vagina and flunks the magic of tidying up. You're Leaving When? is for anybody who thought they had a semblance of security but wound up with a fragile economy and a blankie. "What do we do when we've already reinvented in midlife?" Gurwitch offers stories of resilience, adaptability, low-rent redemption, and the kindness of strangers. Even in a Zoom"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction: I thought there'd be coasting -- Homeward bound -- Stuffed -- Silver nesting -- Red flags -- The ____ that changes everything -- If you lived with me you'd be home by now -- Spirited away -- They got the alias that we've been living under -- Lubepocalypse now! -- Dear girlfriends -- You're doing all the right things, everything is going to work out -- Free to be... they and them -- You're leaving when? -- In a muted zoom no one can hear you scream.

Subject

Middle-aged mothers -- Humor.

Mothers and daughters -- Humor.

Downward mobility (Social sciences) -- Humor.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.

Downward mobility (Social sciences)

Middle-aged mothers.

Mothers and daughters.

Genre/Form

Humor.

Humor.

Essays.

Added Title

You are leaving when

ISBN

9781640094475 (hardcover)

1640094474 (hardcover)

9781640094482 (ebook)