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What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
Little, Brown and Company
September 2007
On Sale: September 10, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 0316166618
EAN: 9780316166614
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Anne Kreamer considered herself a youthful 49 until a
photo of herself with her teenage daughter stopped her in
her tracks. In one unguarded moment she saw herself for what
she really was -- a middle-aged woman with her hair dyed
much too harshly. In that one moment Kreamer realized that
she wasn't fooling anyone about her age and decided it was
time to get real and embrace a more authentic life. She set
out for herself a program to let her hair become its true
color, and along the way discovered her true self.
Going Gray is Kreamer's exploration of that
experience, and a frank, warm and funny investigation of
aging as a female obsession. Through interviews, field
experiments, and her own everywoman's chronicle, Kreamer
probes the issues behind two of the biggest fears aging
women face: Can I be sexually attractive as a
gray-haired, middle-aged woman? and Will I be
discriminated against in the work world? Her answers
will surprise you.
In searching for the balance between attractiveness and
authenticity, Kreamer's journey of middle-aging illuminates
in a friendly, useful, and entertaining way the politics and
personal costs of this generation's definition of "aging
gracefully.
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