Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis -- Ada Calhoun

<p><b>A generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique circumstances that have brought them to this point, <i>Why We Can't Sleep</i> is a lively successor to <i>Passages</i> by Gail Sheehy and <i>The Defining Decade</i> by Meg Jay</b></p> <p>When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too?</p> <p></p> <p>Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked.</p> <p></p> <p>Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to "have it all," Calhoun found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. Instead of being heard, they were told instead to lean in, take "me-time," or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order.</p> <p></p> <p>In <i>Why We Can't Sleep</i>, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X's predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss--and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring