Steamy: A Menopause Symptomology

Hot (flash) takes, symptom by symptom, of The Change: I Feel Hands About My Neck is a raucous menopause memoir.

In 2006, Nora Ephron breached a taboo with her bestselling menopause book, I Feel Bad About My Neck. Five years later, Shari Graydon published a feminist response, an anthology of essays entitled I Feel Great About My Hands. Now Susan Holbrook completes the trilogy with I Feel Hands About My Neck. Exploring the cascading list of symptoms one can potentially face when going through the change (including 2. Hot Flashes, 21. Anxiety, and 45. Fewer Shits), Holbrook composes a comic memoir that opens up an experience still constrained by cultural silences and myths.

I Feel Hands About My Neck is honest, vulnerable, gross, and might just be the funniest book you've ever read about menopause, or anything else (see 37. Bloating).