When you\'re a woman of a certain age, you are not promised anything at all other than that everything will get worse.
Here\'s the proof..
Enjoying yourself--as you are--is not something the world tells you is possible, but it is.
The Pursuit of enjoyment is a political act, both a right and a responsibility.
Macnicol is determined to document the beauty, excess, and triumph of a life that does not require permission.
In the spirit of Deborah Levy and Annie Ernaux, I\'m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself is an intimate, insightful, powerful, and endlessly pleasurable memoir of an intensely lived experience whose meaning and insight expand far beyond the personal narrative.
And yes, plenty of nudity.
THere is dancing on the Seine; a plethora of gooey cheese; midnight bike rides through empty Paris; handsome men; afternoons wandering through the empty Louvre; nighttime swimming in the ocean off a French island.
The weeks in Paris are filled with friendship and food and sex.
What follows is a decadent, unexpected journey into one woman\'s Pursuit of radical enjoyment.
Leaving felt less like a risk than a necessity.
When the opportunity to sublet a friend\'s apartment in Paris arose, Macnicol jumped on it.
Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for.
A year without touch.
The isolation was punishing.
After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment.
Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue Pleasure gripped those who wandered its streets.
But what if everything you\'ve been told is a lie.
When you\'re a woman of a certain age, you are not promised anything at all other than that everything will get worse
