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Christina Myers explores the ways that beauty standards and cultural expectations around femininity have shaped our identities and how we might shed those going forward; the power of friendships and the value of having other women to learn from; the anxiety of moving through motherhood into menopause in a time of global environmental crisis and political upheaval; and the uncertainty of how this stage of life should unfold, as old systems shift and crumble. Though our maps for midlife are never identical, we discover familiar paths and common landmarks in each other’s stories; these essays remind us there are others on this trail with us, just behind or just ahead, out of sight. 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With wit and warmth, these personal essays move from a first bra to first hot flashes to consider the lessons we learn through media and culture––and from each other––about bodies, sexuality, fatphobia, gender roles, and what we should want in life. Christina Myers explores the ways that beauty standards and cultural expectations around femininity have shaped our identities and how we might shed those going forward; the power of friendships and the value of having other women to learn from; the anxiety of moving through motherhood into menopause in a time of global environmental crisis and political upheaval; and the uncertainty of how this stage of life should unfold, as old systems shift and crumble. Though our maps for midlife are never identical, we discover familiar paths and common landmarks in each other’s stories; these essays remind us there are others on this trail with us, just behind or just ahead, out of sight. We are not alone.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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She is a parent of teens, a garage-sale treasure hunter, an enthusiastic but terrible gardener, a fan of dresses with big pockets, and perhaps best of all: a forthcoming crone. She is a member of Da’naxda’xw First Nation, though grew up all over Canada, and now lives in Surrey, British Columbia. Find her online at cmyers.ca.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"BIOGRAPHY \u0026amp; AUTOBIOGRAPHY \/ Personal Memoir","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"BIOGRAPHY \u0026amp; AUTOBIOGRAPHY \/ Women","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"HUMOR \/ Topic \/ Health \u0026amp; Aging","BISACSubject_0":"BIO026000","BISACSubject_1":"BIO022000","BISACSubject_2":"HUM027000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHRISTINA MYERS\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, editor, and former journalist. Her novel \u003cem\u003eThe List of Last Chances\u003c\/em\u003e (2021) was longlisted for the Leacock Medal for Literary Humour, shortlisted for the Fred Kerner Book Award, and won the fiction category of the Canadian Book Club Awards. She edited the award-winning anthology \u003cem\u003eBIG\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), and her work has appeared in anthologies, magazines, and newspapers. An alumnus of the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University, she now teaches creative writing through SFU’s continuing studies program. She is a parent of teens, a garage-sale treasure hunter, an enthusiastic but terrible gardener, a fan of dresses with big pockets, and perhaps best of all: a forthcoming crone. She is a member of Da’naxda’xw First Nation, though grew up all over Canada, and now lives in Surrey, British Columbia. 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Christina Myers explores the ways that beauty standards and cultural expectations around femininity have shaped our identities and how we might shed those going forward; the power of friendships and the value of having other women to learn from; the anxiety of moving through motherhood into menopause in a time of global environmental crisis and political upheaval; and the uncertainty of how this stage of life should unfold, as old systems shift and crumble. Though our maps for midlife are never identical, we discover familiar paths and common landmarks in each other’s stories; these essays remind us there are others on this trail with us, just behind or just ahead, out of sight. 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We’ve all been there, and it’s a joy to realize that we’re not alone on the journey.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Renzetti, author of \u003cem\u003eShrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"With much-needed humour and wisdom, Myers reminds us that even in the midst of uncertainty, we’re never alone on this journey. This book is a necessary, heartfelt guide for those seeking their own unique path through the maze of midlife. A must read!\" —\u003cstrong\u003eChelene Knight, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eLet It Go: Free Yourself from Old Beliefs and Find a New Path to Joy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"From the wise vantage point of mid-age, Christina Myers has located a voice ringing with clarity—a writer who finally trusts her own instincts.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eTara McGuire, former broadcaster and author of \u003cem\u003eHolden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e is a love letter to mothers and grandmothers, sisters and daughters, witches and crones. Christina Myers’s storytelling is gentle and honest, a must-read memoir for women of all ages. So many times, I found myself nodding and exclaiming, ‘Yes! That’s exactly it!’ It’s a mirror but also an invitation to join a secret coven of wise women.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eK. J. Aiello, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"Christina Myers’s essays are bewitching in their insight and exhilarating in their clear-eyed examination of the oppressive systems that seek to crush and contain women. With tenderness and gleeful moments of discovery, \u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e begins a map that readers and the author create together, finding a way forward in a strange new world where traditional paths for women lead nowhere and new ones are still being cleared.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eHollay Ghadery, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eFuse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e is a gracefully written exploration of what it means to be a woman in a complicated world, navigating the terrain from first bras and first periods to hot flashes and perimenopause and the uncharted landscape beyond. Christina Myers offers up a warm-hearted, absorbing read that you'll want to devour in one sitting and return to in quiet moments with a cup of tea and a box of tissues as you laugh-cry your way through essays that make you want to shout out loud in solidarity. In sharing her own journey with honesty, vulnerability, and insight, Myers invites you to extend compassion to the younger self you once were and to embrace the flawed beauty of the crone you are becoming. This is a book that demands to be shared with all the wise women in your own world—sisters, mothers, daughters, friends—as it reminds you of the truth we all need to hear: Amidst all the messiness, chaos, and unravelling that comes along with midlife, you are not, and never will be, alone.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eJulie MacLellan, former arts and culture editor and journalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"These clever, articulate, powerful true stories explore many issues relevant to midlife: the misinformation we carry from childhood, ‘the gospel of worthiness,’ ‘the doctrine of the makeover,’ ‘the sacred knowledge of women,’ and more. Most of all, the author deals with the need to belong, including as a mother, a sexual being, [and] a feminist … readers rooting for this lively, fiercely honest writer will be happy that Christina Myers finds her way home.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eBeth Kaplan, author of \u003cem\u003eMidlife Solo: Writing through Chaos to Find My Place in the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003e\"As I run around looking like a hot mess—where my body and mind change, disappoint, and introduce themselves anew each year—I need \u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e for my own survival. As Christina Myers writes, the old maps are no longer reliable. Friends, leggings, growing children, and forms, she makes me laugh, cry, shiver, hold my breath, and sigh, inspiring a conversation with my younger, present, and future self. What are the big brown envelopes we carry with us over the decades? What myths have we swallowed whole that we struggle to break free? How do we measure ourselves, time, and (mid)life itself? \u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e reminds me to let go of the ‘aspirational impossibilities’ and welcome in the things we have been systematically ‘taught to forget.’ Myers reminds me I get to decide how to live this one midlife. Let her see you, so you too can see yourself through.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eCarys Cragg, author of \u003cem\u003eDead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father\u003c\/em\u003e, finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_8":"\u003cp\u003e\"Compulsively readable, Christina Myers’s \u003cem\u003eHalfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife\u003c\/em\u003e is the tour through life that every Gen X woman never knew she needed. From Sears training bras, sneaking tampons into the ladies’ room, and makeover magazines, to being forced to wear a too-tight employee uniform T-shirt before the rise of the #MeToo movement, Myers has seen it all, as she mothers teenagers who do and don’t need her anymore, allowing sapphire-blue leggings to transform her life. Let this midlife new best friend lovingly guide you through your anti-wrinkle cream, perimenopause, and climate change uncertainties. Grieving all the other lives we might have had, Myers prepares us to move into our wisest years yet, where a woman past her prime isn’t less than what she was before: instead, she is more. I would follow her anywhere.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Lewis, author of \u003cem\u003eZipless\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThere is a new openness about women’s health, with extensive public conversations about topics that would have been taboo for previous generations: menstruation, perimenopause, menopause – the things we’re not supposed to talk about.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlder women have become more visible on social media, there are Instagram and TikTok feeds celebrating their fashion,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor women who are in or approaching midlife. For fans of \u003cem\u003eAnd Just Like That\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBaronness von Sketch Show\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWorking Moms\u003c\/em\u003e; Dr Jen Gunter’s \u003cem\u003eJensplaining\u003c\/em\u003e; for fans of podcasts like Julia Louis Dreyfuss’s \u003cem\u003eWiser Than Me\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eABC’s The Golden Bachelor has been a surprise hit; viewers have really connected with the contestants, older women who have been through life, experienced heartache and loss, women with personality and history. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThere is a new openness about women’s health, with extensive public conversations about topics that would have been taboo for previous generations: menstruation, perimenopause, menopause – the things we’re not supposed to talk about.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlder women have become more visible on social media, there are Instagram and TikTok feeds celebrating their fashion,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor women who are in or approaching midlife. 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Halfway Home
Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapid social, cultural, and environmental change.
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{"id":7168137920571,"title":"Midway","handle":"midway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2025 DC Reid Poetry Book Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHonest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, \u003cem\u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of grief in all its manifestations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I feel like the crud \/ I accidentally touch sometimes, whatever it is \/ that collects under cushions on my couch,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection, \u003cem\u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e, an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice), Vietnamese restaurants, the beach, London’s Tate Modern, Las Vegas casinos, and a fish textbook. 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In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice), Vietnamese restaurants, the beach, London’s Tate Modern, Las Vegas casinos, and a fish textbook. Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, these poems take the reader through bright scenery like carnival rides with fast climbs and sudden drops. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful, bleak—both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits \u003cem\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/em\u003e. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. \u003cem\u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Midway
Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, Midway is an exploration of grief in all its manifestations.
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Somewhere Over the Sea
A beautifully written and deeply intimate work of literary nonfiction that conveys the profound love of one father for his autistic son.
