Having It All...But Not All At Once. One Woman.s Wild Experience in Middle Class America

Carolyn was born during a time of insecurity, with the nation at war and its people united. She came of age during a period of turmoil – when the nation was again at war, and this time, its people splitting apart. Against a backdrop of social and sexual revolution and questions around what it means to be an American, Carolyn shares her own personal history in a series of essays about growing up and growing old in middle-class America.Like the shifting patchwork fabric of the country itself, it’s a memoir of relationships coming together and flying apart, of the cruelties of loved ones and compassion of strangers, of abandonment, loss, resilience and adventure. Ultimately, it is the story of what it means to be a family, and how one spirited woman kept pace with the chaos around her, and at the center of it found herself.