Description
A generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique circumstances that have brought them to this point,��Why We Can���t Sleep��is a lively successor to��Passages��by Gail Sheehy and��The Defining Decade��by Meg Jay.
When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too?
Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked.
Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to ���have it all,��� Calhoun found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. Instead of being heard, they were told instead to lean in, take ���me-time,��� or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order.
In��Why We Can���t Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X���s predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss���and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.
Binding / Paperback:��304 pages
Publish Date: 19 January 2021