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No One Tells You This: A Memoir
No One Tells You This: A Memoir
No One Tells You This: A Memoir
Audiobook9 hours

No One Tells You This: A Memoir

Written by Glynnis MacNicol

Narrated by Allyson Ryan

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“I found myself underlining sentences, and then entire passages, that resonated with me, articulating the extreme inadequacy and sense of dislocation single women of a certain age, like MacNicol—and like me —experience in moments when others are growing closer without you…an anthem to choosing the single, family-free life.”—Amanda Stern, The New York Times Book Review

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If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?

This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her 40th birthday. Despite a successful career as a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was constantly reminded she had neither of the things the world expected of a woman her age: a partner or a baby. She knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, single women and those without children are often seen as objects of pity, relegated to the sidelines, or indulgent spoiled creatures who think only of themselves.

Glynnis refused to be cast into either of those roles and yet the question remained: What now? There was no good blueprint for how to be a woman alone in the world. She concluded it was time to create one.

Over the course of her fortieth year, which this memoir chronicles, Glynnis embarks on a revealing journey of self-discovery that continually contradicts everything she’d been led to expect. Through the trials of family illness and turmoil, and the thrills of far-flung travel and adventures with men, young and old (and sometimes wearing cowboy hats), she is forced to wrestle with her biggest hopes and fears about love, death, sex, friendship, and loneliness. In doing so, she discovers that holding the power to determine her own fate requires a resilience and courage that no one talks about, and is more rewarding than anyone imagines.

Intimate and timely, No One Tells You This is a fearless reckoning with modern womanhood and an exhilarating adventure that will resonate with anyone determined to live by their own rules.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 10, 2018
ISBN9781508260004
Author

Glynnis MacNicol

TheLi.st is a network and visibility platform for professional women from all industries who are ambitious, accomplished, and committed to helping each other rise. In 2013 it was named to Forbes’ 100 Best Websites for Women and Business Insider‘s Silicon Alley 100, and has been featured in the New York Times, Marie Claire, the Guardian, Fast Company, Elle, Buzzfeed, Refinery 29, and more. Sign up for its regular newsletter at www.TheLi.st Glynnis MacNicol is a writer and co-founder of The Li.st. Previously she was the media editor at Business Insider and a founding editor of Mediaite. She contributes to Capital New York. During the 2008 election year, she was a regular contributor to Playboy.com. Her work has also appeared in print and online for publications including Marie Claire, The Daily Beast, the Huffington Post, Outside, and Maclean’s. She began her media career as an associate editor at the Huffington Post media blog Eat the Press and as the editor of FishbowlNY. Before that, she was a book publishing spy. Glynnis frequently speaks on the intersection of media and politics, and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, CBC, and Al Jazeera.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you feel like you don't fit in to the conventional expectations for life, I highly recommend that you read or listen to this book. It helped me change my perspective on myself and my life and find some peace with who I am.

    5 people found this helpful

  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It was great and engaging
    Loved it !
    Thanks

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Boring book. It's just a long, endless rant. Skip this one!

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was just what I needed to read right now.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'm really not sure how I feel about this one. There are some passages where the author articulates some of my feelings or experiences right on, better than any explanations I've read or thought myself. But if I'm looking for assurance about my own life, this is not it. MacNicol's experiences as a single person are not my own. She's got a significant and intense network of very close friends and allies, she's living her dream in New York and jetsetting on some pretty amazing adventures. So while I relate to her acknowledgement of happily living an alternate life that women are not brought up to imagine as an option (ie, being satisfied as a single and not a failure simply because she is not married and/or have kids), I can't connect to her on many other levels. This story is as much about a woman dealing with her mother's decline of Parkinson's and dementia as much as accepting singlehood, about embracing the freedom to have adventures as much as accepting the children in her life belong to her friends and sister. This is not the book I thought it was going to be, or needed.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Okay I think I need to give up on reading books by single women as apparently I’m an alien to the group as a whole. Are there any that just live and do their thing and don’t live in a huge city and live it up and date all the time until they feel it’s finally okay to say they’re fine with being alone? I should be the most empathetic reader here yet only felt for the author’s ordeal with her mother’s disease and early death.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This memoir of a woman writing about her life without children and partner was in many ways super relatable to me, but it felt like it was missing some kind of introspection necessary to make it a cohesive whole.