Perimenopausal heroine Jillian Eyre faces a midlife meltdown. A corporate takeover brings a new editorial staff of twentysomethings to the magazine on which Jill has built her careerand she sticks out like a sore thumb splattered with age spots. Melodramatic pop-up fantasies fill the void created by her long-distance marriage. And when her mother has a face-lift, Jill is angry at a world in which a woman can look younger than her middle-aged daughter. As Jill rises from the ashes of three-alarm hot flashes, she conquers demonsher own and the corporate ones that threaten to devour humanity.
Perimenopausal heroine Jillian Eyre faces a midlife meltdown. A corporate takeover brings a new editorial staff of twentysomethings to the magazine on which Jill has built her careerand she sticks out like a sore thumb splattered with age spots. Melodramatic pop-up fantasies fill the void created by her long-distance marriage. And when her mother has a face-lift, Jill is angry at a world in which a woman can look younger than her middle-aged daughter. As Jill rises from the ashes of three-alarm hot flashes, she conquers demonsher own and the corporate ones that threaten to devour humanity.