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The Madwoman in the Volvo
By: Sandra Tsing Loh
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ISBN: 9780393351095 Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Year of publishing: 2015 Format: Paperback
No of Pages: 288 Language: English
In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster through "the change." This is not your grandmother's menopause story....Read more
In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster through "the change." This is not your grandmother's menopause story. Loh chronicles utterly relatable, everyday perils: raising preteen daughters, weathering hormonal changes, and going through the ups and downs of a career and a relationship. She writes also about an affair and the explosion of her marriage, the pressures of keeping her daughters off Facebook while managing the legal and marital hijinks of her eighty-nine-year-old dad, and a despairing withdrawal to a tiny cabin where she combined wine and Ambien, paralyzing her arm into a claw. In one outrageous chapter, a hormonal Loh finds herself trekking to her preteen daughter's school to confront a ten-year-old bully half her size. In another she attempts to subsist on only zero-calorie noodles and the occasional fat-free yogurt in a hopeless effort to vanquish added midlife weight. In The Madwoman in the Volvo Loh speaks hilariously and honestly about her life as a mother, a daughter, and an artist.
She recounts her journey through a tumultuous time of life, trying to maintain appearances during an epic hormonal-and that means physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual-change. The upbeat conclusion: it does get better.
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She recounts her journey through a tumultuous time of life, trying to maintain appearances during an epic hormonal-and that means physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual-change. The upbeat conclusion: it does get better.
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About the author: Sandra Tsing Loh
Review:Wry, disarming, and totally candid... This is not your grandmother's menopause story." "Reads like a weekend away with the best friend you ever had-blazingly vulnerable, scorchingly smart, and...Read more
Wry, disarming, and totally candid... This is not your grandmother's menopause story." "Reads like a weekend away with the best friend you ever had-blazingly vulnerable, scorchingly smart, and funny as hell. It's both an intimate portrait of one woman as she approaches menopause and a full-throated cultural howl about what it means to be female and forty or fifty or sixty something in America today. I was filled with recognition as I read the book's first pages and flooded with gratitude by the end... A beautiful book you're going to miss after you've read the last page." -- Cheryl Strayed "I laughed maniacally, nodded in empathy, hooted, teared up, and laughed some more. And while you could make the case that with a menopausal woman, that could have happened even had I spent the time gardening, in this case I am pretty certain it was the author's doing." -- Mary Roach "Loh is that rare writer who is howlingly funny on the surface and subtly brilliant just beneath... Goes down like cheap wine-fast and furiously-yet at the end, instead of a hangover, you have a bold and beautiful new view of life." -- Cathi Hanauer, author of Gone and editor of The Bitch in the House "[A] brave and witty memoir." -- Judith Newman "Does what every memoir ought to do: it reminds the reader she's not alone." -- Claire Dederer
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