For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth about Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance

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For Keeps is an inspirational collection by top women writers on their relationships with their bodies. It explores with awe and intelligence the surprises and challenges of our bodies--whether caused by illness, aging, injury, or life circumstances--that make us rethink the way we see ourselves, and even live our lives. These empowering essays reveal the journeys women take as they age and change in ways both good and bad. Sandra Benitez shares her struggles with illness over thirty years before finally and thrillingly exchanging pain and suffering for an ilesotomy bag. Kate Maloy reflects on the way her ex-husband's illness provided an epiphany about living life to its fullest. Liza Nelson writes about how her mastectomy allowed her to finally divorce the breasts she'd always loathed. Each unique story in this collection brings the reader closer to understanding her relationship with her own body--both physical and emotional.

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Publisher’s Weekly (10/15/2007)
Nora Ephron's bestselling I Feel Bad About My Neck has perhaps opened the door to discussing the failings of the female body and of female aging, and the 27 contributors to this collection deserve gratitude for enlarging the discussion. The essays detail a plethora of possible events associated with aging: aging mothers and mothers-in-law, one's own increasing frailty and final illnesses. There are deaths and divorces after long-lived marriages. Other contributors write of the abrupt arrival in the world of acute or chronic illness. Two very different threads run throughout the essays. One is the degree to which each writer has found a way to retain or regain a sense of power over her life. The other is the power of childhood messages and experiences to resonate for decades. Standouts include PW Reviews director Louisa Ermelino's luminous account of her mother's and husband's final illnesses, and Liza Nelson's wonderful story of her double mastectomy-she's thrilled to be rid of the enormous appendages that had tormented her all her life. (Dec.)

ISBN: 1580052045 | EAN: 9781580052047
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)  | Publication Date: November, 2007

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