For many women, a cloak of invisibility seems to wrap us in thicker and thicker layers of obscurity as we move into old age. "You Can Tell a Crone by Her Cackle" protests that erasure, reclaiming the exciting, intensely alive time of life a woman experiences as she enters her fifth decade and begins to consider what comes next. It is a rich period full of paradox - needs of elderly parents, dramas of adult children, contrast with the exquisite freedom...
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