The End-of-the-Line Club: A Diary

The End-of-the-Line Club: A Diary - Hardcover

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The End-of-the-Line Club: A Diary

The End-of-the-Line Club: A Diary - Hardcover

by Fleda Brown
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Book Overview

A diary of the emotional impact of selling most of your things and moving into a retirement community.

In 2023, 18% of the U.S. population is 65 and older. This is us, my husband and me. Way over. Many of us have considered whether we want to radically upend our lives, get rid of most of our beloved possessions, and move into a place that does many things for us. How would that be? You've given up your job, now you're contemplating giving up the rest of your previous identity and moving in with a bunch of old people. Really?

When my husband and I made this move, it was not from immediate need. It was anticipating that need. My husband's back was getting worse. We chose to make our life easier. We were asked by many friends what it was like, living in a senior retirement facility. I had no idea how life-wrenching the move would be. I started keeping a diary because I'm a writer; this is what I do.

ISBN9781968761271
Author Fleda Brown
PublisherMission Point Press
GenreBiography, Self-help & personal development, and Relationships
FormatHardcover
PublishedJune 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages232
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Fleda Brown

Fleda Brown has published nine previous collections of poems. She's gathered a large selection of those poems for her new book, due out in 2017, called The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems, from the University of Nebraska Press. Her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer's Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her collection of essays, with Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea, Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives, came out in 2013 from Autumn House Books. Her memoir, Driving With Dvorak, was published in 2010 by the University of Nebraska Press. Her poems have been used as texts for several prizewinning musical compositions performed at Eastman School of Music, Yale University, and by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. She has won the New Letters and the Ohio State Univ/The Journal awards for creative nonfiction. She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she taught for 27 years and directed the Poets in the Schools program. She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-07. She now lives with her husband, Jerry Beasley, in Traverse City, Michigan, not far from their cottage on Intermediate Lake. She is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency Master of Fine Arts program in Tacoma, Washington.

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