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Also by Karen Stabiner:

Getting In, March 2010
Paperback
The Empty Nest, May 2007
Hardcover

The Empty Nest
Karen Stabiner

31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop

Voice
May 2007
On Sale: May 8, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 1401302572
EAN: 9781401302573
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

A heartwarming, wry, and often surprising collection of essays about the next rite of passage for Baby Boomers: what happens when the kids leave home

As the baby boom generation ages -- the oldest are now turning sixty -- many of them are learning to deal with a whole new way of life, after the last child has finally moved out and they are, once again, alone. It’s the same milestone their own parents faced, but as with so many other markers, this generation approaches it in a whole new way.

In this fascinating collection, journalist Karen Stabiner has assembled essays from thirty-one writers about their own experience with the empty nest. Parents whose children left home last week join those with grandchildren to explore how life changes once the offspring leave (unless, of course, they move back in again later). They represent the full range of experience -- from traditional nuclear families to single parents to gay parents to grandparents -- with humor, grace, and poignancy.

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