Im Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Womans Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris-New

Im Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Womans Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris-New

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When youre a woman smack in so-called middle age you are not promised anything at all other than that everything will get worse. But what if everything youve been told is a lie.Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists, and a thirst for long overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered its streets.After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged 46, unmarried with no children, spent 16 months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for. When the opportunity to sublet a friends apartment in Paris arose, MacNicol jumped on it. Leaving felt like less of a risk than a necessity.What follows is a decadent, unexpected journey into one womans pursuit of radical enjoyment.The weeks in Paris are filled with friendship and food and sex. There is dancing on the Seine; a plethora of gooey cheese; midnight bike rides through empty Paris; handsome men; afternoons wandering through the empty Louvre; nighttime swimming in the ocean off a French island. And yes, plenty of nudity.In the spirit of Deborah Levy and Annie Ernaux, Im Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself is an intimate, insightful, powerful, and endlessly pleasurable memoir of an intensely lived experience whose meaning and insight expands far beyond the personal narrative. MacNicol is determined to document the beauty, excess, and triumph of a life that does not require permission.The pursuit of enjoyment is a political act, both a right and a responsibility. Enjoying yourself-as you are-is not something the world tells you is possible, but it is.Heres the proof.

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