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For Better, For Worse, For Menopause: A Novel About Love, Laughter and Finding Yourself After Fifty
Marriage promised for better or worse. Nobody mentioned menopause.
At fifty-three, Amie thought she had life mostly figured out. She had a husband she loved, three grown kids, a country home she was finally learning to call her own, fourteen chickens—and one rooster named Silver Dollar who had declared a personal vendetta against her husband, Evin.
Then menopause showed up.
Suddenly Amie is awake at 2:47 a.m., battling hot flashes, brain fog, unexpected tears, a changing body, and the occasional chin hair with ambitions of its own. Meanwhile, Evin is doing his best to keep up—Googling menopause, developing survival strategies, and eventually learning the most important rule of know when to stop talking.
But somewhere between girls’ nights with the Hot Flash Society, grown children who don’t need her quite like they used to, runaway chickens, and a long-overdue trip to Minnesota’s North Shore, Amie begins asking a question she hasn’t asked in
What do I want?
Funny, warm, and heartfelt, For Better, For Worse, For Menopause is a story about marriage, midlife, friendship, second chances, and finding yourself after spending years taking care of everyone else.
Because fifty-three isn’t the beginning of the end.
It might just be the beginning.
At fifty-three, Amie thought she had life mostly figured out. She had a husband she loved, three grown kids, a country home she was finally learning to call her own, fourteen chickens—and one rooster named Silver Dollar who had declared a personal vendetta against her husband, Evin.
Then menopause showed up.
Suddenly Amie is awake at 2:47 a.m., battling hot flashes, brain fog, unexpected tears, a changing body, and the occasional chin hair with ambitions of its own. Meanwhile, Evin is doing his best to keep up—Googling menopause, developing survival strategies, and eventually learning the most important rule of know when to stop talking.
But somewhere between girls’ nights with the Hot Flash Society, grown children who don’t need her quite like they used to, runaway chickens, and a long-overdue trip to Minnesota’s North Shore, Amie begins asking a question she hasn’t asked in
What do I want?
Funny, warm, and heartfelt, For Better, For Worse, For Menopause is a story about marriage, midlife, friendship, second chances, and finding yourself after spending years taking care of everyone else.
Because fifty-three isn’t the beginning of the end.
It might just be the beginning.
96 pages, Paperback
Published September 11, 2026
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September 20, 2026
What a great read for those of us in our fifties! Loved this book’s wit and charm. It was a perfect fall weekend read.
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