Inside the Mind Behind Terms & Conditions: Amy Goldmacher Reveals the Untold Story of Her Memoir
That was one of the pieces where I had to play around with the title so that, in the alphabetical order of the book, the moment and the meaning of the piece were very deliberate and intentional and meaningful to the arc of the story.
MF: The book seems to be a great deal about anxiety, grief, and making peace with the unexplained. In what ways has the book assisted with your own journey?
AG: I wanted to bring the reader along with me on this journey of self-discovery: I was a person who carried a lot of stuff from the first half of my life. We all are! I was facing major milestones in terms of my father’s illness and death, my own health journey, and approaching 50 and the mid-life point. I wanted the reader to see what it was like to make that transition from the first half of life to the second half of life. Writing it helped me make sense of it for myself. I asked myself questions and came up with an answer for myself that is enabling me to move forward into the rest of my life and let go of the stuff that I don’t want to carry anymore.
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