Published in 2025
8 hours and 51 minutes
Sari Botton is a writer and editor living in Kingston, NY. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Catapult, and the former Essays Editor for Longreads. She edited the award-winning, bestselling anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. She teaches creative nonfiction at Wilkes University, Catapult, Bay Path University, and Kingston Writers’ Studio. She publishes the newsletters Oldster Magazine, Memoir Monday, and Adventures in Journalism. @saribotton
What is this book about?
Gen-X author and Oldster Magazine/Memoir Land editor Sari Botton reads her celebrated memoir, And You May Find Yourself…, about finding yourself later in life—after first getting lost in all the wrong places. As Botton discovers, the wrong places famously include her own self-suppression and misguided efforts to please others (mostly men). In a series of candid, reflective, sometimes humorous essays, Botton describes coming to feminism and self-actualization as an older person; second (and third and fourth) chances; and how maybe it’s never too late to find your way…assuming you’re lucky enough to live long.
“In her edgy, tender, witty way, Sari Botton has written a book for any woman who ever contorted herself to fit culturally imposed ideals, in other words, all of us. In witnessing the ways Sari has fought and failed and flourished, in the poignancy and laughter, there is deep wisdom and an abundance of spirit.” —Beverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys
