Another Country

"[Pipher] observes that to grow old for many people in today's fragmented, age-phobic, age-segregated America is to inhabit a foreign country, isolated, disconnected, and misunderstood." --"The New York Times" "Pipher explores how today's mobile, individualistic, media-drenched culture prevents so many dependent old people, and the relatives trying to do right by them, from getting what they need...Her insights will help people of several generations." --"The Washington Post" "Totally accessible...["Another Country"] is a compassionate...look at the disconnect between baby boomers and their aging parents or grandparents." --"USA"" Today" "A field guide to old age, combining personal stories with social theory." --"The Boston Globe" "Passionate and eloquent...There's a profound depth to this wise and moving book. Go read." --"Lincoln"" Star-Journal " "Rich in stories and full in details." --"St. Louis"" Post-Dispatch" "Older men and women, as well as their children and grandchildren, will find this well-written and a sensitive investigation of aging...Enlightening and engrossing." --"Publishers Weekly" "Well written and sensitive...a wealth of information about the problems of growing older."-- Publisher's Weekly "Totally accessible . . . [Another Country] is a compassionate . . . look at the disconnect between baby boomers and their aging parents or grandparents".-- USA Today