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Everything to Everyone: How to Wrangle Kids, Work, Aging Parents, and Spouses... When You Just Want a Nap
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Expected 16 Mar 27A
Boston Globe
journalist reframes the pressures of midlife and maps a more fulfilling way forward for Gen X and Millennial women.
When Kara Baskin found herself losing her mom while working full time and caring for young children, she sought out a book that would put her experience―which hit like a cocktail of overwhelm, muddled feminism, and bitters―into words. She didn’t find the book she was looking for, but on soccer sidelines and on text threads, simmering resentment poured forth in stolen moments among women. So did a search for validation.So Kara started asking What is it that makes this stage different from what it was for women who came before? How can we field all of this midlife grief, stress, and upheaval and still, you know, enjoy ourselves? Each chapter of Everything to Everyone takes readers through a different role women play―from adult daughter of aging parents, to operations executive, to diligent professional, to EQ-translator―and asks how to adopt these roles more thoughtfully. Mixing advice from experts with stories from women who’ve achieved balance, this is the roadmap for the ordinary person’s midlife, exploring how to untangle ourselves from the tyrannical thrum of shoulds. This isn’t a call to burn it all down; it’s a warm, witty guide to know what to put down and when―an invitation to appreciate what we’ve built on our own terms.
When Kara Baskin found herself losing her mom while working full time and caring for young children, she sought out a book that would put her experience―which hit like a cocktail of overwhelm, muddled feminism, and bitters―into words. She didn’t find the book she was looking for, but on soccer sidelines and on text threads, simmering resentment poured forth in stolen moments among women. So did a search for validation.So Kara started asking What is it that makes this stage different from what it was for women who came before? How can we field all of this midlife grief, stress, and upheaval and still, you know, enjoy ourselves? Each chapter of Everything to Everyone takes readers through a different role women play―from adult daughter of aging parents, to operations executive, to diligent professional, to EQ-translator―and asks how to adopt these roles more thoughtfully. Mixing advice from experts with stories from women who’ve achieved balance, this is the roadmap for the ordinary person’s midlife, exploring how to untangle ourselves from the tyrannical thrum of shoulds. This isn’t a call to burn it all down; it’s a warm, witty guide to know what to put down and when―an invitation to appreciate what we’ve built on our own terms.
256 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication March 16, 2027
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