Coming of Age, Madeleine May Kunin
Coming of Age, Madeleine May Kunin
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Coming of Age
My Journey to the Eighties

Author: Madeleine May Kunin

Narrator: Madeleine May Kunin

Unabridged: 3 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2019

Synopsis

Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former threeterm governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. In her newest book, a memoir entitled Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, the topic is aging, but she looks well beyond the physical tolls and explores the emotional ones as well. And she has had an extraordinary life: governor, ambassador, feminist, wife, mother, professor, poet, and much, much more. As recently reported in the New York Times, a girl born today can expect to live to the age of ninety, on average (boys, on the other hand, can expect to live until age eightyfive). Life expectancy, for many, is increasing, yet people rarely contemplate the emotional changes that come alongside the physical changes of aging. Madeleine wants to change that. Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties takes a close and incisive look at what it is like to grow old. The book is a memoir, yet most important of all, it is an honest and positive look at aging and how it has affected her life. Cover photo © Todd Lockwood.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth

I really enjoyed reading these stories. My father was Jewish and my mother was Presbyterian. There really wasn't a Jewish population to speak of in our small town. My limited experience with Jewish traditions and culture was when we would travel to Ohio to be with our grandparents and Dad's side of......more

Goodreads review by Danielle

I enjoyed these stories and related to many of the middle grade voices from each story. I laughed, groaned, and "stressed out" along with the characters as they prepared for their B'Nai Mitzvah and learned a bit about the Jewish faith as I read. Highly recommended anthology for all.......more

Goodreads review by Laura

13 different authors tell 13 different stories about B’nai Mitzvah – those wanted and unwanted, realistic, historical, fantastical, and even autobiographical. Antisemitism is a theme for one of the longest stories, a fictional story about a girl afraid to have her Bat Mitzvah because of past experie......more

Goodreads review by Susan

I'm generally not a short story fan, but I quite enjoyed this collection centered around the Jewish tradition of Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. The 13 pieces in this anthology offer more variety than I would have thought, ranging from a short poem (by Jane Yolen, the only author in the anthology that I recognize......more

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