Saturday, December 27, 2014

Younger by Pamela Redmond Satran, 2005

Younger by Pamela Redmond SatranA light, quick read, Younger is an entertaining story that revolves around the theme of stay-at-home moms versus career women.

Alice is a forty-four woman going through a divorce who gets a makeover on New Year's Eve.

With a new hair style and wardrobe, Alice looks decades younger and starts off her new year "younger."

Passing for someone in her twenties, Alice is able to recapture her life twenty years ago when she decided to stop working to raise her daughter with her husband Gary, a poet she met in Paris who would become a dentist.

With her younger look, she is able to get a job that she had interviewed for earlier while she was her dumpier self.

Although Alice is older and much has changed since she last worked, she still finds it difficult and intimidating to speak up at work.

She befriends a co-worker Lindsay, who is in her twenties and plans to get married soon, enjoy married life for a few years before having children, whom she would take are of full time.

Reminiscent of my frame of mind in my 20s, Lindsay's timeline startles Alice, who advises her to consider whether she wants to give up up her career, since returning to work after staying at home to care for children is not that simple.

Of course, having the optimistic outlook of someone in their 20s, Lindsay's is not able to comprehend future difficulties in achieving anything she desires.

Alice's best friend Maggie faces the reverse dilemma.  Focused on her career, Maggie has become a reknowned artist and now wants to start a family.  Alice is skeptical of whether it's too late for Maggie to become a mother given the work and energy needed to raise children.

The lesson of course, is that it's not too late for either women to start a new life, whether it involves being a professional or being a mother.

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