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    The Blackberry Tea Club: Women in Their Glory Years

    By Barbara Herrick

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    Mid-life crisis is not a crisis-it is a passage into joy. This was the essential truth discovered by the four women of a certain age, founding members of the Blackberry Tea Club, which began as late-night conversations while sipping blackberry tea with a little kick added. Those conversations about children, men, jobs, weight, clothes, food, travel, gossip, politics, medicine, healing, spirituality, adventure, and books grew slowly, beautifully into the Blackberry Tea Club and the discovery of the Glory Years.

    The Blackberry Tea Club weaves together essays, stories, and poetry, celebrating mid-life in all its silliness, sorrow, and glory. Bottom line: middle age is much more than menopause. These are the Glory Years for women, years that bring about the expansion and reorganizing of the mind, heart, and spirit, and the birthing of a larger self of immense compassion, intellect, will, spirit, love, and capability.

    Divided into five parts, each one explores different themes: 1. Seeing mid-life crisis as an adamant search for joy; 2. Discovering opportunities for women to appreciate their bodies; 3. Exploring multiple facets of love; 4. Letting go of the bad stuff to relish "what light there is".

    The Blackberry Tea Club offers stories of adventure, food, spirit, and the community of women in their Glory Years.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel
    Release dateSep 15, 2004
    ISBN9781609252649
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    The Blackberry Tea Club: Women in Their Glory Years
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    Barbara Herrick

    Barbara Herrick is a freelance writer, whose other work includes the narrative nonfiction book The Blackberry Tea Club, from which the text for this fourcolor gift book is excerpted, plus two books on Boise, Idaho, and numerous stories and poems. She's a founding member of The Blackberry Tea Club, women who get together intermittently for adventures, talk, and more. She lives in Boise, ID.

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      I think The Last Girls is a better book dealing with a similar demographic.This is combination poetry/essay, and while I found much of the language powerful, I was under the impression that it was going to be a novel, not an essay on women in their glory years. There are snippets of biography, elements of poetry, insights and wisdom, and definitely parts that are quite humorous. I can see that this might be a book to reread when I am 50 rather than 30, though the woman's voice -- the writer-- seems less like a 50-something than it does an older woman.