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The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting
Blue Rider Press
April 2016
On Sale: April 5, 2016
288 pages
ISBN: 039916815X
EAN: 9780399168154
Kindle: B013D66BQ4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From one of the country’s most recognizable journalists:
How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman’s
life.
After four decades as a reporter,
Lesley Stahl’s most vivid and transformative experience of
her life was not covering the White House, interviewing
heads of state, or researching stories at 60 Minutes.
It was becoming a grandmother. She was hit with a jolt of
joy so intense and unexpected, she wanted to “investigate”
it—as though it were a news flash. And so, using her 60
Minutes skills, she explored how grandmothering changes
a woman’s life, interviewing friends like Whoopi Goldberg,
colleagues like Diane Sawyer (and grandfathers, including
Tom Brokaw), as well as the proverbial woman next
door.
Along with these personal accounts, Stahl
speakswith scientists and doctors about physiological
changes that occur in women when they have grandchildren;
anthropologists about why there are grandmothers, in
evolutionary terms; and psychiatrists about the therapeutic
effects of grandchildren on both grandmothers and
grandfathers.
Throughout Becoming Grandma,
Stahl shares stories about her own life with granddaughters
Jordan and Chloe, about how her relationship with her
daughter, Taylor, has changed, and about how being a
grandfather has affected her husband, Aaron.
In an
era when baby boomers are becoming grandparents in droves
and when young parents need all the help they can get
raising their children, Stahl’s book is a timely and
affecting read that re-defines a cherished relationship.
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