Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut)

You're leaving when?, adventures in downward mobility, Annabelle Gurwitch

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Annabelle Gurwitch

adventures in downward mobility

From the New York Times bestselling author of I See You Made an Effort comes a timely and hilarious chronicle of downward mobility, financial and emotional. With signature 'sharp wit' (NPR), Annabelle Gurwitch gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proving that the no-frills new normal doesn't mean a deficit of humor. In these essays, Gurwitch embraces homesharing, welcoming a housing-insecure young couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary, she relearns to parent, one pronoun at a time. She wades into the dating pool with a reupholstered vagina and flunks the magic of tidying up. This book is for anybody who thought they had a semblance of security but wound up with a fragile economy and a blankie. 'What do we do when we've already reinvented in midlife?' Gurwitch offers stories of resilience, adaptability, low-rent redemption, and the kindness of strangers. Even in a Zoom

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