When Claire Federer turned forty-four she began to have what she describes as “ a lot of extremely inconvenient feelings” — feelings of recklessness, of impatience, along with a kind of Voluptuous erotic reawakening. After the wildness of youth, and the bliss and captivity of motherhood, she experienced at midlife a sudden yearning for jailbreak. Love & trouble shifts between her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollection of herself as a teenager— the last time she experienced life with such heightened sensitivity and longing.

ISBN: 9781101946503