Barbara Herrick

I think The Last Girls is a better book dealing with a similar demographic.This is combination poetry/essay, and while I found much of the language powerful, I was under the impression that it was going to be a novel, not an essay on women in their glory years. There are snippets of biography, elements of poetry, insights and wisdom, and definitely parts that are quite humorous. I can see that this might be a book to reread when I am 50 rather than 30, though the woman's voice -- the writer-- seems less like a 50-something than it does an older woman.… (mais)