The Rest of Our Lives

“Are you over twenty-seven years old? If ‘yes,’ then buy this book and read it—the sooner, the better—regardless of anything about you, other than your age. The stories and insights in The Rest of Our Lives—from memoirist Judy Goldman (and friends and family) —will connect you with a self that you will be learning about from now on. This book is about a big topic: you, your fears, your hopes, your time with the rest of us—before joining the Majority.” —Clyde Edgerton, author of Walking Across Egypt and Lunch at the Piccadilly

“We carry time in our hearts, in our bones. We carry memory—the person we once were alive within the person we’ve become. In The Rest of Our Lives, a gorgeous, honest, finally hopeful book of reminisce and reckoning, Judy Goldman yields her many engaging selves and her grace-inflected wisdoms. Goldman writes toward her readers as if confiding in a friend. That is because she is our friend—unabashed, trusted, and true.” —Beth Kephart, National Book Award finalist and author of Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story

A lively and poignant exploration of life’s latter decades.

In The Rest of Our Lives, memoirist Judy Goldman brings her devoted readers dispatches from the edge of life, when turning eighty can be as surprising and baffling as losing your virginity or seeing The Beatles at Shea Stadium. In this lively and poignant exploration of aging, Goldman circles to those other uncharted moments of our lives when we are at once anxious and excited about just what might happen next. Goldman’s telling and retelling of pivotal stories of her own family and friends—romances, births, late-night taxi-cab rides, falls, frailty, and even death—are altogether new in her hands.

paperback ISBN: 9781958888544