Actress and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with , a book of essays so wickedly funny it may make you forget your last birthday. Not one to shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the slyly subversive () Gurwitch confronts the various indignities faced by femmes dun certain ge with candor, wit, and a healthy dose of hilarious self-deprecation. Whether falling in lust at the Genius Bar, navigating the extensiveand treacherously expensiveantiaging offerings at a department store beauty counter, coping with the assisted suicide of her best friend, negotiating the ins and outs of acceptable behavior with her teenage kid or the thudding financial reality of the never-tirement generation that leads her to petty theft, Gurwitchs essays prove her a remarkably astute writer in her prime (in so many ways). Is this the beginning of the Eileen Fisher years? Where does one conduct an affair with a younger man? Is fifty the new forty? Or is fifty still justfifty?Scorchingly honest, surreally and riotously funny, is the ultimate coming-of-middle-age story and a must listen for women of all ages.