The Hump
Lindsay Goldwert and Gabrielle Moss
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For fans of Rebel Girl, Ambition Monster, and the Showtime cult TV series "Yellowjackets," The Hump is the only funny, heartfelt, and actually helpful midlife management guide for women over 40, because:
We’re punks, we’re dorks, we’re feminists, we’re ready for a nap. But we’re still out there and ready to fight for our right to live deliciously.
This is not a menopause book. Or a book on how to manifest, transform and "be your best self." (The authors think you're pretty great already.) This is self-help for the rest of us. The authors speak for the millions of women who burst into their 20s with only aCosmopolitanmagazine education about how to be a grown-up and then belly-flopped into adulthood completely unprepared. Now these brilliant and exhausted ladies have hit their 40s and they’re now not sure how to navigate their next act. Welcome to The Hump. And the only way to get over it is to get through it together.
Filled with practical advice from experts in psychology, dating, sex, and finance — as well as interviews with real women about their hopes, fears, and mistakes — The Hump is a funny, wise midlife guide for women who were not sure what the hell they were doing for the first 40+ years of their lives, but are ready to finally figure it out. Throughout the book, the authors use expert advice, exercises, and analysis to help readers figure out how they landed where they are now – and what’s next.
The Hump will show readers the difference between what they want and what theywantto want, and whether they really need to burn it all down and move to the Maldives – or if they just need help figuring out how to make those important changes. Readers will emerge from The Hump with new information about their values, their goals, what motivates them, what’s a struggle for them, and how they can get what they want out of the next chapter of their lives, all while keeping their senses of humor intact.
And this time... it's personal.
Lindsay Goldwert is an editorial director, writer, podcast host, and the author of Bow Down: Lessons from Dominatrixes on How to Be a Boss in Life, Love and Work (Simon & Schuster, January 2020), a Glamour Magazine Best Book. She’s written about everything from personal finance to power dynamics in and out of the bedroom to midlife and perimenopause in publications like The New York Times, NYMag, Refinery29, Qz, Fast Company, Slate, and many others.
In 2022, she co-launched Adulted, the editorial arm of Stripes, a skincare and wellness brand, founded by actor and activist Naomi Watts. A former stand-up comedian, her funny tweets were featured in Buzzfeed, New York Times, New York magazine, Comedy Central and many others.
Lindsay lives in Queens, NY and Asbury Park, NJ.