First published 2022
Laurie Notaro has made it past fifty without landing in rehab, prison, or an early grave. She simply went gray. Every silver root represents hard-won knowledge, real experience, and newfound superpowers that come with age. Gray-haired women can get away with almost anything. At first, midlife brings unsettling changes. Her body makes strange cracking sounds. Funeral homes send her promotional mail. But Notaro embraces these realities and pushes further. She accidentally shoplifts potatoes. She yells at rude drivers from her beat-up Prius. She becomes an epic troll on neighborhood social media. This behavior reveals the secret brilliance of aging. Each day brings less fear than the last. The bestselling author transforms the supposed downsides of growing older into sources of power, humor, and unexpected liberation.
Genres: humor, american, autobiography, contemporary, adult-fiction, memoir, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, humorous, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: coming-of-age, personal-journey
Period: 21st-Century
256 pages · Hardcover · Little A