"Reading Halfway Home feels like having a conversation with a very wise, witty friend. Christina Myers’s delightful collection of essays about the stages of a woman’s life is personal, but also universal. We’ve all been there, and it’s a joy to realize that we’re not alone on the journey." —Elizabeth Renzetti, author of Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls

"With much-needed humour and wisdom, Myers reminds us that even in the midst of uncertainty, we’re never alone on this journey. This book is a necessary, heartfelt guide for those seeking their own unique path through the maze of midlife. A must read!" —Chelene Knight, award-winning author of Let It Go: Free Yourself from Old Beliefs and Find a New Path to Joy

"From the wise vantage point of mid-age, Christina Myers has located a voice ringing with clarity—a writer who finally trusts her own instincts." — Tara McGuire, former broadcaster and author of Holden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose

"Halfway Home is a love letter to mothers and grandmothers, sisters and daughters, witches and crones. Christina Myers’s storytelling is gentle and honest, a must-read memoir for women of all ages. So many times, I found myself nodding and exclaiming, ‘Yes! That’s exactly it!’ It’s a mirror but also an invitation to join a secret coven of wise women." — K. J. Aiello, author of The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell

"Christina Myers’s essays are bewitching in their insight and exhilarating in their clear-eyed examination of the oppressive systems that seek to crush and contain women. With tenderness and gleeful moments of discovery, Halfway Home begins a map that readers and the author create together, finding a way forward in a strange new world where traditional paths for women lead nowhere and new ones are still being cleared." — Hollay Ghadery, award-winning author of Fuse

"Halfway Home is a gracefully written exploration of what it means to be a woman in a complicated world, navigating the terrain from first bras and first periods to hot flashes and perimenopause and the uncharted landscape beyond. Christina Myers offers up a warm-hearted, absorbing read that you'll want to devour in one sitting and return to in quiet moments with a cup of tea and a box of tissues as you laugh-cry your way through essays that make you want to shout out loud in solidarity. In sharing her own journey with honesty, vulnerability, and insight, Myers invites you to extend compassion to the younger self you once were and to embrace the flawed beauty of the crone you are becoming. This is a book that demands to be shared with all the wise women in your own world—sisters, mothers, daughters, friends—as it reminds you of the truth we all need to hear: Amidst all the messiness, chaos, and unravelling that comes along with midlife, you are not, and never will be, alone." — Julie MacLellan, former arts and culture editor and journalist

"These clever, articulate, powerful true stories explore many issues relevant to midlife: the misinformation we carry from childhood, ‘the gospel of worthiness,’ ‘the doctrine of the makeover,’ ‘the sacred knowledge of women,’ and more. Most of all, the author deals with the need to belong, including as a mother, a sexual being, [and] a feminist … readers rooting for this lively, fiercely honest writer will be happy that Christina Myers finds her way home." — Beth Kaplan, author of Midlife Solo: Writing through Chaos to Find My Place in the World

"As I run around looking like a hot mess—where my body and mind change, disappoint, and introduce themselves anew each year—I need Halfway Home for my own survival. As Christina Myers writes, the old maps are no longer reliable. Friends, leggings, growing children, and forms, she makes me laugh, cry, shiver, hold my breath, and sigh, inspiring a conversation with my younger, present, and future self. What are the big brown envelopes we carry with us over the decades? What myths have we swallowed whole that we struggle to break free? How do we measure ourselves, time, and (mid)life itself? Halfway Home reminds me to let go of the ‘aspirational impossibilities’ and welcome in the things we have been systematically ‘taught to forget.’ Myers reminds me I get to decide how to live this one midlife. Let her see you, so you too can see yourself through." — Carys Cragg, author of Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father, finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction

"Compulsively readable, Christina Myers’s Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife is the tour through life that every Gen X woman never knew she needed. From Sears training bras, sneaking tampons into the ladies’ room, and makeover magazines, to being forced to wear a too-tight employee uniform T-shirt before the rise of the #MeToo movement, Myers has seen it all, as she mothers teenagers who do and don’t need her anymore, allowing sapphire-blue leggings to transform her life. Let this midlife new best friend lovingly guide you through your anti-wrinkle cream, perimenopause, and climate change uncertainties. Grieving all the other lives we might have had, Myers prepares us to move into our wisest years yet, where a woman past her prime isn’t less than what she was before: instead, she is more. I would follow her anywhere." — Catherine Lewis, author of Zipless

“Epiphanies abound in Halfway Home. Some are bittersweet, many are funny, and most will give readers pause, if only to see that others grapple with such thoughts too.” — Literary Review of Canada

"In Halfway Home Myers has unlocked the whispers of the universe." — British Columbia Review