ABOUT MIDLIFE PRIVATE PARTS
Midlife Private Parts is a soulful and revealing collection of essays that explore the many facets of this transformative time in life. Each story sheds light, with humanity and good humor, on what it really feels like to move through the world as a midlife woman and beyond.
Whether it’s sexual pleasure, midlife reinvention, menopause, friendship, redefining style at a certain age, dating after divorce, feeling invisible, or simply being in the last place you ever thought you’d be, you’ll feel seen in these essays that acknowledge the changes and challenges but capture the power, freedom and confidence that comes with age.
Told through the eyes of contemporary women writers, authors, and creatives, each shares a story of coming to terms with aging and confronting the unexpected moments that define midlife. In their candid personal narratives, you will find connection, validation, and inspiration.
If you are craving community, Midlife Private Parts will be akin to a safe haven where you will feel seen, heard, and understood. A place where women are empowered to age boldly and unapologetically.
BOOK TOUR
6/24: New York, NY, She Media
6/29: Miami, FL, Books & Books
7/27: Santa Monica, CA, Zibby’s Book Shop
8/9: Author’s Night, East Hampton, NY
9/13: Big Book Party, NYC - Location TBD
10/8: New York, NY, Luminary (w/ Lauren Tetenbaum and Elana Brotman)
10/18: Boston, MA, Uncommon Threads with Susan Kanoff and Jessica Fein
10/29: Bedford, NY, Bedford Books
12/3: Winston Salem, NC w/ Dara Kurtz
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dina Alvarez started her writing career as a freelancer for Big Apple Parent in New York City covering education, local politics, and lifestyle.
She later co-founded SomosPadres, the first and only bilingual parenting publication for Hispanic families in New York City.
Dina is an avid reader and lover of anthologies, particularly those that tell women’s stories. She is the mother of two sons and a native New Yorker. She continues to call the city home where she lives with her family.
Dina Aronson is passionate about shining a light on midlife women and reframing the cultural conversation around aging.
She began her career as an attorney, later founding a legal search firm, but pivoted as she approached midlife and couldn’t find relevant content that reflected her experience.
She began freelancing for start-ups aimed at the forty and above woman, and founded the Patina blog, now a Substack newsletter called Patina with Dina Aronson, where she explores topics in and around aging through her midlife lens.
She has two grown stepsons, and currently lives between New York City and Miami with her husband.
PRAISE FOR MIDLIFE PRIVATE PARTS
“We are all aging bolder, sexier and better than ever!”
Dina Alvarez and Dina Aronson's book Midlife Private Parts, Revealing Essays that Will Change the Way You Think About Age, brings the midlife community together and shares what we all think about age and life. With every essay you feel seen, heard and understood. Midlife Private Parts is a must read for all women!"
— Tamsen Fadal, Filmmaker, The (M) Factor Film and Author of How To Menopause
"A refreshingly candid and insightful look at this transitional time, told through the eyes of women who explore the emotional, physical and relational shifts that come with midlife. Their resonant stories, shared with humor, vulnerability and wisdom, turn the narrative on its head and invite us to embrace this phase with curiosity and a renewed sense of purpose so that these years can be the best of our lives.”
— Chip Conley, Founder MEA and New York Times bestselling author
“What you’ll find in this book is a compendium of wise words for those of us who reached mid-life and thought: 'where the heck am I?'
Think of it not only as a companion on your own journey but a road map to the renaissance you most wholeheartedly deserve."
— Stacy London, designer, television host, menopause advocate, and New York Times bestselling author
CONTRIBUTORS
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What Readers Are Saying
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It’s a collection of pieces written by real women who tell it like it is about a time in life that can be poignant, painful, perplexing, preposterous, and just plain priceless. I found myself laughing-crying (and crying-laughing) about all the things: editing friend groups, all of a sudden no longer being the" “young” kid on the block, inevitabilities like losing a parent, and (yes) those bouts of rage that come with middlescence.” Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy for the plane, the beach, the book club… it’s *****!
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Women just like me. It’s like a book of poems or a tarot card deck, where you can randomly open the book on any given day and land at the exact story you needed to hear in that moment. I saw a midlife part of myself in each story. In some I laughed…in others I cried, and yet others made me get curious and add to my bucket of things to explore. Dinas, what a beautiful gift you've created.
It’s deeply comforting to know that so many of us are awakening to the desire for a different kind of midlife. This book is proof we’re not alone, and that our stories, in all their rawness and beauty, truly matter.
-Sonia Flores, host of Modern Latina in Midlife podcast
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Midlife Private Parts is a compilation of essays from women who make you realize that you are not alone with what you are experiencing in life as you are getting older and entering new phases. That you aren’t necessarily that different. There was a comfort that I felt as I read each essay. Some I felt that the writer was in my thoughts and others that I felt a sense of empathy for the writer, because I could imagine what she was feeling.
This is a great book to have in your bag or sitting on your beside table. Read an essay whenever you have a few minutes. This book will make you feel like you have some new friends that totally get you.
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exploration and empowerment. Having a collection of works written by women for women seems like a natural and necessary addition to any feminist’s personal library, and indeed this selection of essays begs to be read and re-read. Thoughtful, inspiring, and honest (not to mention heartwarming and humorous), this book leaves the reader with the feeling that she belongs right there with these extraordinary storytellers taking up space - in the best company — anywhere women share experiences and feel empowered to speak up and out for themselves and each other.
Midlife Private Parts, a great summer read that will be pulled off the shelf to enjoy all year long.
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editorial choices of Dina Alvarez and Dina Aronson spotlight the insight, humor and respecfulness of writers telling compelling true stories — reinvention, desire, parenthood, singlehood, divorce, childlessness, the loss of parents, illness, fulfillment, failure, personal style, bespoke aging and the joy of foing all in on female friendship. Women carry stories. We intuit and interpret meaning. This book does exactly that; it’s a remarkable panoramic of midlife women in modern America.