Act Like You’re Having a Good Time

by Michele Weldon

2020 · Paperback

Essays on being a mature woman still looking for a life of purpose while popular culture treats her as finished. Weldon is funny about invisibility without letting anyone off the hook for it. Winner of the Gilda Prize.

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