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In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times best-selling publisher and winner of the Pulitzer Reward Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead - and celebrating it all - as she considers matrimony, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, everything in our closets, and more. As she have in her loved New York Times columns, and in A Brief Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen says for us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves. Using her former, present, and future to explore what matters most to women at different age range, Quindlen talks about: Marriage: "A safety net of small white lays can be the bedrock of a successful matrimony. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen restoration." Girlfriends: "Ask any girl how she makes it through the day, and she may refer to her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you force her on how she really makes it through her day, she'll refer to her girlfriends. Sometimes I will see a photography of an celebrity within an unflattering dress or a blouse too young for her or with a heavy-handed makeup job, and I mutter, 'She must not have any girlfriends.'" Products: "Here's what it comes down to, really: there is now so much products in my mind, so many years, so many stories, that it's considered the area of primacy away from the items in the bedrooms, on the porch. My doctor says that, unlike conventional intelligence, she doesn't believe our stories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because of how congested it is in the drawers of our own minds. Between the stuff at the job and the products at home, the consultations and the news and the gossip and the others, the past and the present and the strategies for the future, the filing cupboards in our heads aren't only full, they're overflowing." Our anatomies: "I've finally regarded my own body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to transport my character from spot to place, now and in the years to come. It's just like a car, even though I like a red convertible or even a Bentley as well as another person, what I really need are four wheels and an engine motor." Parenting: "Being truly a mother or father is not transactional. We don't get what we give. It's the ultimate pay-it-forward effort: We could good parents not so they will be loving enough to remain around but so they will be strong enough to leave us." From childhood stories to manic motherhood to middle age, Quindlen uses the events of her own life to illuminate our own. Along with the downsides old, she says, can come wisdom, a point of view on life that means it is satisfying and even joyful. Candid, funny, moving, Lots of Candles, A lot of Cake is filled up with the sharpened insights and revealing observations that contain long confirmed Quindlen's position as America's laureate of true to life.
