Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years

From the creator of the iconic "Cathy" comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls "the panini generation."

As the creator of "Cathy," Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers more than forty years ago, and has been there ever since. Her hilarious and deeply relatable look at the challenges of womanhood in a changing world became a cultural touchstone for women everywhere. Now Guisewite returns with her signature wit and warmth in this debut essay collection about another time of big transition, when everything starts changing and disappearing without permission: aging parents, aging children, aging self stuck in the middle.

With her uniquely wry and funny admissions and insights, Guisewite unearths the humor and horror of everything from the mundane (trying to introduce her parents to TiVo and facing four decades' worth of unorganized photos) to the profound (finding a purpose post-retirement, helping parents downsize their lives, and declaring freedrom from all those things that hold us back). No longer confined to the limits of four comic panels, Guisewite holds out her hand in prose form and becomes a reassuring companion for those on the threshold of "what happens next." Heartfelt and humane and always cathartic, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault is ideal reading for mothers, daughters, and anyone who is caught somewhere in between.

• The Mother-Daughter Dance
• Like Mother Like Daughter
• I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore: A Cathy Collection
• Another Saturday Night of Wild and Reckless Abandon
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
• Southern Lady Code: Essays
• Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions
• What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
• This Much Country
• Cathy Twentieth Anniversary Collection (Volume 17)