No One Tells You This: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

“I found myself underlining phrases, and then entire passages, that resonated beside me, articulating the intensive inadequacy and feeling of dislocation solitary women of a particular age, like MacNicol—and like me personally —knowledge in occasions when others are growing closer without you…an anthem to choosing the solitary, family-free lifestyle.”—Amanda Stern, THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review

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If the storyplot doesn’t end with relationship or a child, what then?

This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol in the eve of her 40th birthday. Despite an effective career being a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was continuously reminded she had neither of the things the world anticipated of a female her age group: a partner or a baby. She knew she was likely to experience bad about this. After all, one women and the ones without children tend to be seen as items of pity, relegated to the sidelines, or indulgent spoiled animals who think only of themselves.

Glynnis refused to be cast into either of these roles and yet the query continued to be: What now? There is no great blueprint for how to be a female by itself in the world. She concluded it was time for you to create one.

During the period of her fortieth year, which this memoir chronicles, Glynnis embarks on the revealing trip of self-discovery that continuously contradicts everything she’d been led to expect. Through the studies of family disease and turmoil, as well as the thrills of far-flung travel and travels with men, youthful and older (and sometimes wearing cowboy hats), she is compelled to wrestle with her biggest expectations and anxieties about love, loss of life, sex, friendship, and loneliness. In doing this, she discovers that keeping the energy to determine her personal fate takes a resilience and courage that no-one talks about, and it is even more rewarding than anyone imagines.

Intimate and well-timed, No One Tells You That is a fearless reckoning with contemporary womanhood and an exhilarating adventure that may resonate with anyone motivated to live by their personal rules.