Katie Roiphe 
In Praise of Messy Lives [EPUB ebook] 

Is there some adventure out there that we are not having, some vividness, some wild pleasure, that we are not experiencing in our responsible, productive days? … We are bequeathed on earth one very short life, and it might be good, one of these days, to make sure that we are living it. » As steely eyed in examining her own life as she is in skewering our cultural pitfalls, Roiphe gives us autobiographical pieces that are by turns, deeply moving, self-critical, razor-sharp, entertaining and unapologetic in their defence of  »messy lives ». In Praise of Messy Lives is powerfully unified, vital work from one of our most astute and essayists writing today.