As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded by a catchphrase on everyone's lips: "Fifty is the new thirty." With a comedy writer's training and a screenwriter's eye for detail, Jackson skewers that particular myth with a hilarious, bare-knuckled, and ultimately practical appraisal of what middle age really means today. Jackson not only faces the elephant in the room, she puts it under a (very large) microscope, confronting the truth about death, work, and sex in what the French call the "third age."
While investigating her own life, Jackson takes us through the many twists and turns on the roller coaster of aging. She is not afraid to tackle the topics the years may bring. She makes us laugh hard and think hard as well, and offers ways to lighten the speed bumps along the way.
~My thoughts~
I will be facing my fiftieth birthday next year (still can't believe it) and found this book a pleasure to read. Ms. Jackson was spot on about how the dating scene is more difficult at this age as well as how we seem to lose more people our age as we get older.
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