Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women over Forty

Various Authors

ISBN 10: 0786159294 ISBN 13: 9780786159291

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc., 2007

Synopsis

In the tradition of the bestselling The Bitch in the House, Kiss Tomorrow Hello brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. The twenty-five stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love and sex alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace with parents, and contemplating plastic surgery. The tales are true, the confessions candid, the humor infectious, just what you'd expect from the women whose works represent the best writings of their generation.

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About the Authors

Kim Barnes is the author of two memoirs and two previous novels, including A Country Called Home, which received the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in fiction and was named a best book of 2008 by the Washington Post, the Kansas City Star, and the Oregonian. She is the recipient of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award for an emerging woman writer of nonfiction, and her first memoir, In the Wilderness, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in a number of publications and anthologies, including the New York Times; MORE magazine; O Magazine; Good Housekeeping; Fourth Genre; The Georgia Review; Shenandoah; and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Barnes is a professor of writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.

Claire Davis is the author of Winter Range, winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel. Her short fiction has been chosen for the Best American Short Stories annual collection, read as part of the Symphony Space series on National Public Radio, and published in numerous magazines. She lives in Lewiston, Idaho, where she teaches creative writing at Lewis-Clark College.

Reviews

Twenty-five introspective middle-aged women confront their years with incredulity, wisdom, insight, pain, and humor. And who is that woman who looks just like me in the mirror? Could she be some evil twin? Editors Barnes and Davis gather together the brutal, bare-all confessions and melancholic remembrances. All are delivered flawlessly in voices ranging from sadness to sarcasm, denial, and acceptance. What is remarkable is the way the varied voices--intimate, conspiratorial, totally authentic, natural, and honest-- blend into a presentation of shared sisterhood. Middle-aged women wont want to miss this. M.T.B. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786159294
• ISBN 13: 9780786159291
• Binding: Audio CD
• Editor: Kim Barnes And Claire Davis