{"product_id":"flash-count-diary-9781250619686","title":"Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Darcey Steinke] has written a searingly intelligent, richly imagined, deeply moving memoir and exploration of menopause . . . I love this book. I admire this book. I want everyone to read this book. It's fierce, and it's important.\" --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of \u003ci\u003eEat, Pray, Love \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCity of Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Many days I believe menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy; Darcey Steinke is already there, blazing the way. This elegant, wise, fascinating, deeply moving book is an instant classic. I'm about to buy it for everyone I know.\" --Maggie Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brave, brilliant, and unprecedented examination of menopause\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMenopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up against a culture of silence. Throughout history, the natural physical transition of menopause has been viewed as something to deny, fear, and eradicate. Menstruation signals fertility and life, and childbirth is revered as the ultimate expression of womanhood. Menopause is seen as a harbinger of death. Some books Steinke found promoted hormone replacement therapy. Others encouraged acceptance. But Steinke longed to understand menopause in a more complex, spiritual, and intellectually engaged way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFlash Count Diary, \u003c\/i\u003eSteinke writes frankly about aspects of Menopause that have rarely been written about before. She explores the changing gender landscape that comes with reduced hormone levels, and lays bare the transformation of female desire and the realities of prejudice against older women. Weaving together her personal story with philosophy, science, art, and literature, Steinke reveals that in the seventeenth century, women who had hot flashes in front of others could be accused of being witches; that the model for Duchamp's famous \u003ci\u003eÉtant donnés\u003c\/i\u003e was a post-reproductive woman; and that killer whales--one of the only other species on earth to undergo menopause--live long post-reproductive lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlash Count Diary, \u003c\/i\u003ewith its deep research, open play of ideas, and reverence for the female body, will change the way you think about menopause. It's a deeply feminist book--honest about the intimations of mortality that menopause brings while also arguing for the ascendancy, beauty, and power of the post-reproductive years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarcey Steinke\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eEaster Everywhere \u003c\/i\u003eand the novels \u003ci\u003eMilk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJesus Saves\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSuicide Blonde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUp Through the Water\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSister Golden Hair\u003c\/i\u003e. With Rick Moody, she edited \u003ci\u003eJoyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been both a Henry Hoyns Fellow and a Stegner Fellow as well as a writer in residence at the University of Mississippi, and has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts, Barnard, the American University of Paris, and Princeton.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681815597330,"sku":"9781250619686","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_98ad36d9-a654-4ee6-846a-051e30fd33a4.jpg?v=1733958695","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flash-count-diary-9781250619686","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}