The Empty Nest 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop

by Stabiner, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781401302573
• ISBN10: 1401302572
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-08
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

Reassuring, warm, alternately funny and poignant, The Empty Nest is written by parents who have had to adjust to an empty home. Including essays by: Ellen Goodman, Ellen Levine, Charles McGrath, Anna Quindlen, Harry Shearer, Susan Shreve, Lee Smith, Roger Wilkins and many more, it's the perfect book for any parent whose child is leaving home. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Karen Stabiner is a journalist who writes about food, health, and family issues. Some of her previous books include Family Table, a two-year collaboration with James Beard award-winning Michael Romano; the novel Getting In, a comic look at the college admissions sweepstakes; My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training, a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award; and All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters. She is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times' Opinion section, and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, Los Angeles Magazine, and the New Yorker. She lives in New York City with her family.

Table of Contents

Proof of Love	p. 1
Flown Away, Left Behind	p. 13
Regime Change	p. 17
Careful What You Wish For	p. 23
Always Close	p. 32
The Rules of the Road	p. 41
The Last Summer	p. 51
My Cart	p. 62
Time Traveler	p. 71
The Science of Ghost Hunting	p. 81
Who Knows Where the Time Goes	p. 92
Migrations	p. 100
Without a Net	p. 105
3GRLMOM	p. 112
The Dog Waiting by the Door	p. 121
In Twos	p. 132
A Rotten Enough Parent	p. 141
Epiphanies of the Empty Nest	p. 150
A Mile Ain't What It Used to Be	p. 158
Leaving the Island	p. 172
Good-bye to the Sunset Man	p. 183
The Shuffle	p. 195
Legacies	p. 203
Keeping Him Safe	p. 213
The Shoes on the Stairs	p. 220
Afterwards	p. 233
Conversations	p. 244
Trading a Business Suit for Blue Jeans	p. 254
The Godfather	p. 262
Juggling Lite	p. 269
The Old Blue House and the New Blue House	p. 281
Contributors	p. 291
Acknowledgments	p. 301
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