The Girls with the Grandmother Faces: Single and Sixty is Not for Sissies

Frances Weaver, 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "For Elizabeth." Front cover faintly foxed, top corner bumped. 1987 Trade Paperback. 104 pp. In a style reminiscent of Erma Bombeck and Garrison Keillor, Frances Weaver urges those over 55 to regard their lives with newly opened eyes. This is a world in which older people have better health, housing, educational opportunities, and discretionary buying power than at any other time in history. But, she cautions: "Being old nowadays is not for sissies". It's for those self-starters who can learn to fly kites, go back to school, and reevaluate who they are and where they want to go after the death of a spouse - or the emptying of a noisy, child-dominated household. With wit and common sense, Frances Weaver tackles moving, making new friends in your sixties, travel, support groups, new careers and avocations, and even sex in this lifesaving book that she regards not as a "how-to", but a "why-not".