More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women’s lives today

“At once thrilling and reassuring. It’s the discomfort of the topics that provides comfort, a sense that however knotty our lives have turned out, they’re far more normal than we think.... The anger of the previous book has been replaced by a graceful reckoning and the welcome realization that if we’re trapped at all, it’s only within the confines of certain realities.” —New York Times Book Review