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In a voice that is wry, disarming and totally candid, the ""imaginatively twisted and fearless"" (Los Angeles Times) Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster ride through ""the change"". Loh chronicles relatable, everyday perils: raising daughters, weathering hormonal changes, and the ups and downs of a career and a relationship. She writes about an affair and the explosion of her marriage, and keeping her daughters off Facebook while managing the legal and marital hijinks of her eighty- nine-year-old father. In The Madwoman in the Volvo Loh speaks hilariously and honestly, recounting her journey through a tumultuous time of life, trying to maintain appearances during an epic hormonal—physical, emotional, mental and spiritual—change. The upbeat conclusion: it does get better.

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[Reading this book] I laughed maniacally, nodded in empathy, hooted, teared up, and laughed some more. -- Mary Roach ...riotously funny menopausal memoir... -- Vanity Fair Loh is such an engaging writer she manages to make this extremely difficult time hilarious. -- The New York Times Book Review ...frank and often hilarious account... -- Daily Mail

Wry, disarming, and totally candid... This is not your grandmother's menopause story. Reads like a weekend away with the best friend you ever had-blazingly vulnerable, scorchingly smart, and funny as hell. It's both an intimate portrait of one woman as she approaches menopause and a full-throated cultural howl about what it means to be female and forty or fifty or sixty something in America today. I was filled with recognition as I read the book's first pages and flooded with gratitude by the end... A beautiful book you're going to miss after you've read the last page. -- Cheryl Strayed I laughed maniacally, nodded in empathy, hooted, teared up, and laughed some more. And while you could make the case that with a menopausal woman, that could have happened even had I spent the time gardening, in this case I am pretty certain it was the author's doing. -- Mary Roach Loh is that rare writer who is howlingly funny on the surface and subtly brilliant just beneath... Goes down like cheap wine-fast and furiously-yet at the end, instead of a hangover, you have a bold and beautiful new view of life. -- Cathi Hanauer, author of Gone and editor of The Bitch in the House [A] brave and witty memoir. -- Judith Newman Does what every memoir ought to do: it reminds the reader she's not alone. -- Claire Dederer

Loh is that rare writer who is howlingly funny on the surface and subtly brilliant just beneath. . . . . Goes down like cheap wine fast and furiously yet at the end, instead of a hangover, you have a bold and beautiful new view of life. --Cathi Hanauer, author of Gone and editor of The Bitch in the House

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Sandra Tsing Loh is a writer and performer. Her work has been heard on NPR’s Morning Edition and This American Life. Her book The Madwoman in the Volvo was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. Loh lives in Pasadena, California.

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