Three generations of women.

Mid-Life Crisis: Gen X Edition

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 9, 2020

Ada Calhoun, author of St. Marks is Dead, and Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, talks about the specific problems facing Gen X women sandwiched between Boomers and Millennials and aging parents and young children in her new book, and her new book, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis (Grove Press, 2020).  She and the callers discuss the high expectations of being the young women told "you can have it all" and the middle-aged women anxiously following those who seem to have it all on Instagram.

→EVENT:  Ada Calhoun will be in conversation with fellow writers Karen Abbott and Susannah Cahalan tonight (Jan 9) at 7 at the ‘Books Are Magic’ bookstore at 225 Smith Street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

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