Totally delightful book, read immediately, especially if you, like me, enjoyed Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting. But read that first, because if so there’s a little inside joke referencing Iona here! If I had to guess Pooley herself is likely working through some culturally imposed messaging around the worth of elderly (women) in a society that valorizes youth. She of course has explicit sources of inspiration for each novel–this one, in particular, came from reading about a (spoiler) by 60 year olds and wondering what it would […]