Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Why Fifty Is the New Fifty [Paperback]

Laugh-out-loud funny.
—O, the Oprah magazine

Tracey Jackson confronts the speed bumps of life with wit, brilliant insights, and...common sense....Between a Rock and a Hot Placeis more than a good read, it’s good company.
—John Berendt, author ofMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Hollywood screenwriter Tracey Jackson (The Guru, Ashes to Ashes, The Other End of the Line, The Ivy Chronicles, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and others), delivers a funny, fearless, no-holds-barred look at what it really means to turn 50 today. Offering insight into the joys, hurdles, and life lessons surrounding the half-century mark, Jackson explores topics as wide-ranging as hormone replacement therapy, online dating, lifts, nips, tucks, libidos, finances, coping with death, and preparing for the future.

As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded by a catchphrase on everyone’s lips: “Fifty is the new thirty.” With a comedy writer’s training and a screenwriter’s eye for detail, Jackson skewers that particular myth with a hilarious, bare-knuckled, and ultimately practical appraisal of what middle age really means today. Jackson not only faces the elephant in the room, she puts it under a (very large) microscope, confronting the truth about death, work, and sex in what the French call the “third age.”

Jackson covers it all . . . with humor and a firm hand. . . . The book is nothing less than what my own grandmother used to call a godsend. -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

Tracey Jackson is the hilarious, brutally honest friend you need when you turn 50. . . . If this sounds like just another self-help book, adjust those magnifying eyeglasses, and keep reading. Jackson is a laugh riot. Hysterical, really. -Jan Tuckwood, Palm Beach Post

[Jackson] uses her lc+