Women who live past their youthful, fertile years are often expected to fade into the background. The Change considers what it might be like if we treated middle age and beyond as important as youth.
What makes this book magical is the metaphor of menopause as magic — aging as a beginning instead of an end. The idea of women developing literal powers at a time when their traditional “power” has ended is a fabulous idea worth exploring.
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