and got:

The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies. Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.

The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion.

Marriage, A History. Stephanie Coontz.

My Mother/My Self. Nancy Friday.

i just read:

Nothing Special and Everyday Zen. Charlotte Joko Beck.
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit. Leslie Marmon Silko.
The Night in Question. Tobias Wolff.

i hope the didion is good. i've read some of her stuff before and didn't like it all that much.