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An affirmation of personal power, of the importance of female friendships, and our deep need for joy. Oprah Daily
A MASTERPIECE, you guys. This memoir by the great Jen Hatmaker *cannot* be missed. Elin Hilderbrand
From Jen Hatmakerbeloved New York Times bestselling author and host of the For the Love podcasta brutally honest, funny, and revealing memoir about the traumatic end of her twenty-six-year-long marriage, and the beginning of a different kind of love story.
At 2:30 a.m. on July 11, 2020, Jen Hatmaker woke up to her husband of twenty-six years whispering into his phone to another woman from their bed. It was the end of life as she knew it. In the months that followed, she went from being a shiny, funny, popular leader to a divorced wreck on antidepressants and antianxiety meds, parenting five kids alone with no clue about the functioning of her own bank accounts. Having led millions of women for over a decadeurging them to embrace authenticity, find radical agency, and create healthy relationshipshe felt like a catastrophic failure.
Spanning five decadesfrom girlhood through marriage and parentingin brutally honest, surprisingly funny vignettes, Jen lays bare the disorienting upheaval of midlife and dares to question the systems beneath the whole house of cards. More than one womans story, Awake is a critical analysis of the story given to all of us: the story of gender limitations, religious subservience, body shame, self-erasure. With refreshing candor, Jen explores a midlife renaissancegrieving whats lost, cherishing possibility, and entering the second half of life wide awake.
For the women suddenly lost in the middle of their own story. For the women who are numb from sitting amid the rubble of a life they thought was well lived. For the women who are asking themselves how they got hereand if theres anywhere to goAwake is a reminder that there is always a next chapter, and you can write it yourself.
