This book, O My America! by Sara Wheeler seems like essential reading for me right now at the age of 54; my children still evolving but essentially grown, my formal education complete, and a recession-driven drought of applicable jobs for this mid-life, math-phobic, technologically rusty woman. Wheeler profiles six 19th century English women who fled to the U.S. after rejecting the belief in the culturally ingrained idea - still so prevalent today - that once you hit the age of 50, life remains static, its usefulness gone. I am besotted by these women, this author, this seizing of life. Because I am still boiling, still seething, with the mad desire to create, to experience, to teach, to do.
Read this kick-ass review, by Caroline Moorehead, in today's Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324747104579024960285940366.html
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