The Fix: A Novel

For readers of Maria Semple and Grant Ginder, a funny, furious, and emotionally piercing debut novel about a middle-aged journalist at a crossroads, a reverse-aging drug that actually works, and the friend that got away.

Forty-five-year-old Julia is a freelance journalist mired in the myriad pressures of marriage, motherhood, and midlife. Two daughters, a kind but complacent husband, and a household that runs on her invisible labor: it’s a recipe for quiet resentment and thwarted ambition.

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