Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something Like Grace by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something Like Grace

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

500 pages first pub 2020 (view editions)

nonfiction health memoir reflective medium-paced
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This book is ideal for readers seeking a reflective and insightful exploration of aging, blending personal memoir with broader social observations to offer both comfort and wisdom for embracing later life.

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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now eighty-eight, tur...

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reflective: 80%

funny: 60%

informative: 60%

inspiring: 60%

sad: 40%

adventurous: 20%

challenging: 20%

dark: 20%

emotional: 20%


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