Rating: 3 out of 5.

Callie gave up her career on the east coast to follow her husband’s job to Sacramento, CA for just a “couple years”. Twenty years later her husband dumps her for a new woman with a baby on the way. She’s an empty nester with no job prospects, a mother showing signs of dementia, and is facing a health scare. After taking to her bed and binging on junk food and booze, she realizes she needs to get back to the strong, smart, ambitious woman she started out being at the beginning of her marriage.

The book goes back and forth between Callie’s days in Princeton, her first love, her marriage, and what she’s doing to take her life back. I loved her best friend. A true “ride or die”. The book is funny, poignant, and shines a bright light on Gen Xers stuck in a “sandwich generation” situation. I liked how Callie learned to love herself again and return to the person she always knew she was.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley and Kate Rock Literary Services. All opinions are my own.