...and the Net Will Appear!
I spent all day Saturday reading this book. I couldn't put it down. She is so talking to me.
All of a sudden, in her mid-50's, Sara Davidson can't get work, her kids go off to college and her partner of seven years ups and leaves her.
So she goes on a kind of quest. She interviews lots of other people in similar situations. She talks to Carly Simon (breast cancer and divorce). She talks to Ram Dass (stroke), Tom Hayden, (lost the election) and Gloria Steinem (married for the first time in her mid-60's only to have her husband die of brain cancer three years later).
She talks to a Jewish women who joins a (Christian) nunnery at 50. And another woman, who after 30 years of being Swami Durgananda, left the hindu "convent" to go back to being Sally Kempton.
She decides to pick up and move to a new city. She tries teaching. She celebrates her 60th birthday. She does on-line dating. She watches a face-lift operation. She goes to an ashram, and a tantric sex workship, and volunteers to teach English in an orphanage (in India) for low-caste kids.
By the end of the book, she says, "....I'm not in the same place I was when I began; the incidents and accidents of the past three years have made me half in love with uncertainty.
"Once again, I have no idea what work I'll do next or what companions will be with me, but I'm not fighting and raging against it. Expectancy is in the air."
(For me, too.)
10:48:18 AM 
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