Exploring the Untold Stories of Midlife Intimacy: A Bold New Anthology Challenges Taboos
Maybe I was so drawn to this book because its stories of transition and transformation mirror my own midlife reckoning. Several years ago, I closed my small private practice after more than thirty years in healthcare, no longer taking care of children and families as a pediatrician. Now, I’ve merged my two passions — medicine and writing — into a new position as writer-in-residence at a large urban family medicine residency program. I lead doctors-in-training in close readings of literary work; then we write reflectively to prompts I create to help them explore their relationships with their patients and colleagues and their journeys as physicians. We connect through our stories, much as Alvarez and Aronson’s collected stories connect readers to something larger than themselves.
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