Beth Kaplan’s new memoir-in-essays, Midlife Solo: writing through chaos to find my way in the world, was published in November by Mosaic Press and launched with a joyful party at Ben McNally Books.

In Midlife Solo, a single mother starting afresh in her forties struggles, with warmth, humour, and honesty, to come to terms with the messy complications of middle age. These captivating, very personal essays chronicle Beth Kaplan’s chaotic twenty-five-year journey to find peace and home.

Christopher Moore, multi-award-winning author and past Chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada, wrote that “Midlife Solo shapes bright fragments from a remarkable life into a twenty-first century kaleidoscope of women’s experience.”