<blockquote> <p> A funny, fearless, no-holds-barred look at aging?hormone replacement therapy, online dating, eye lifts, and all </p> </blockquote> <p> As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded?at the gym, at parties, in conversations with friends?by a catchphrase on everyone's lips. ?Fifty is the new thirty? and the endless magazine articles, photos, and T-shirts proclaiming the new aphorism had apparently bloomed out of a collective sense of denial, masking the true fears of a generation unwilling to relinquish their youth. </p> <p> With a comedy writer's training and a screenwriter's eye for detail, Jackson skewers the myth in a hilarious, bare-knuckled, and ultimately practical appraisal of what middle age <i>really</i> means today. Turning fifty is a wake-up call?but one that can be greeted with a plan. <i>Between a Rock and a Hot Place</i> navigates, with unsparing honesty and unerring wit, the confusion and uncertainty of the most significant uncharted transition in our lives. </p>