Chloe Caldwell Libros

Chloe Caldwell navigates the complexities of her menstrual cycle as she falls in love with Tony, a musician and single dad. In her thirties, she begins to notice how her anxiety and rage correlate with her hormonal changes. Driven to understand her experiences, Chloe explores societal attitudes toward menstruation, engages with online discussions about PMS, and cycles through various treatments, including antidepressants. Her journey leads her to a conference called Break the Cycle, where she learns about premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), which helps her articulate her struggles. However, healing transcends finding a diagnosis; it involves introspection about her queer identity, writing persona, and the impact of her parents' divorce on her trust issues, as well as her role as a stepmother. This memoir is both humorous and intimate, resonating with anyone dealing with medical diagnoses and labels. Ultimately, it emphasizes that true relief comes from self-acceptance, self-compassion, and overcoming shame. It also delves into the challenges of love, revealing how it can expose vulnerabilities while fostering personal growth and transformation.

'A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth' Lena Dunham 'I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.' A young woman moves from the countryside to the city. Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life. Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men's clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile - and a long-term girlfriend. With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love.

Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year AwardIn 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That , a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, Didion’s tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up Didion’s literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered—the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.They also share the grief that comes when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York’s frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love—still— remains just out of reach, each writer’s goodbye to New York is singular and universal, like New York itself.With Cheryl Strayed, Dani Shapiro, Emma Straub, Ann Hood, and more.