For many women, a cloak of invisibility seems to wrap us in thicker and thicker layers of obscurity as we move into old age. "You Can Tell a Crone by Her Cackle" protests that erasure, reclaiming the exciting, intensely alive time of life a woman experiences as she enters her fifth decade and begins to consider what comes next. It is a rich period full of paradox - needs of elderly parents, dramas of adult children, contrast with the exquisite freedom to be oneself. "You Can Tell a Crone by Her Cackle" celebrates the many nuances in the lives of 'women of a certain age.' Buy this book for your mom, your aunt, your sister, yourself, but also for your dad, brother, husband, son, who are rarely privy to how women experience later life, and even less, what they think about it all.
