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A calm, unsentimental book about aging-for readers who prefer clarity to comfort. AFTERNOON: The Aging Guide for Beginners You've survived youth. Navigated midlife. And now, somewhere between fifty-five and eighty-five, you've arrived at what Carl Jung called the afternoon of life - and nobody handed you a map. Eva Tombak isn't going to pretend she has one either. What she offers instead is rarer: the willingness to talk about aging without euphemism, false comfort, or the suspiciously cheerful claim that seventy is the new fifty. Writing from Vilnius, with the dry honesty of someone who grew up where mortality was never a lifestyle topic, Tombak looks directly at what matters: the fear of dementia, the cruelties of ageism, the illusions of the longevity industry, and the strange, quiet freedom of having less time ahead than behind. At times ironic, at times disarmingly direct, and occasionally-when the subject demands it-simply quiet. Illustrated with darkly comic drawings by Viktor Tombak, this is not a book that will tell you aging is beautiful. It will tell you something more useful: that it is real, that it is yours, and that how you meet it matters more than you think. For readers who are done being talked down to about getting old.

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