Coming of Age

By: Madeleine May Kunin

Published by Green Writers Press, 2018-10-02

<p>Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term 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<i></i><i>Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties</i>, 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. </p><p>As recently reported in the <i>New York Times, </i> 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 eighty-five). 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. <i>Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties</i> 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. <br>Cover photo (c) Todd Lockwood.</p>