Publisher Description
Kiss Tomorrow Hello brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. The twenty-five stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love and sex alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace with parents, and contemplating plastic surgery. The tales are true, the confessions candid, the humor infectious.
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"Good essays about the changing perceptions of ourselves and our bodies as we begin to age. The women writing these essays did a great job. All are published authors/poets.
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Pris (4 out of 5 stars)
About the Authors
Kim
Barnes is the author of two memoirs and two previous novels, including A
Country Called Home, which received the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award
in fiction and was named a best book of 2008 by the Washington Post, the
Kansas City Star, and the Oregonian. She is the recipient of the
PEN/Jerard Fund Award for an emerging woman writer of nonfiction, and her first
memoir, In the Wilderness, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her
work has appeared in a number of publications and anthologies, including the New
York Times; MORE magazine; O Magazine; Good Housekeeping; Fourth
Genre; The Georgia Review; Shenandoah; and the Pushcart Prize anthology.
Barnes is a professor of writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her
husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.
Claire Davis is the author of Winter Range, winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel. Her short fiction has been chosen for the Best American Short Stories annual collection, read as part of the Symphony Space series on National Public Radio, and published in numerous magazines. She lives in Lewiston, Idaho, where she teaches creative writing at Lewis-Clark College.
About a full cast
R. F. Daley is an actor, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator. His television credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bones, Dexter, The Office, Arrested Development, Boston Public, and Spin City, among many others. He has narrated numerous audiobooks by L. Ron Hubbard and was the voice of the military adviser in the video game Civilization V.