Women Rowing North

I'm certainly too young for this book, but read it hoping to gain some insight into how to support aging parents and elderly grandparents. I bought it after the author was interviewed on Kate Bowler's fantastic podcast. However, I found it to be a real downer. It tries so hard to be upbeat and have a message of hope, but mostly falls back on saccharine platitudes and interminable pointless vignettes about the lives of specific women. It's also pretty gender-essentialist, which isn't a surprise given the title and framing, but it's annoying to read how “we” are a certain way over and over again (for instance: good at listening, good at friendships, etc.). I would not recommend this to an aging parent, fearing it would simply make her more depressed about the ways she's not living up to the women whose stories are featured in the book.