Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

“[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life.”—NPR

This edition includes an exclusive conversation between Meryl Streep and Anna Quindlen.

In this irresistible memoir, Anna Quindlen writes about a woman’s life, from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age. Considering—and celebrating—everything from marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, parenting, faith, loss, to all the stuff in our closets, and more, Quindlen says for us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves. As she did in her beloved New York Times columns, and in A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen uses her past, present, and future to explore what matters most to women at different ages. Quindlen talks about:
 
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