Sandwiched between raising their own children and taking on the responsibilities of their aging boomer parents, GenX mothers are often faced with a seemingly impossible emotional juggling act.
In her memoir, Truth Has a Different Shape Kari O'Driscoll faces the challenges of being groomed as a caretaker, growing up in the post-first-wave-feminist 70s and 80s, in a family where her need for love is often unmet, and how that shifts her own identity as woman, wife, mother, and child.
Kari has learned to see her own personal evolution as an ever-expanding spiral - where she does occasionally find herself back in a familiar place, but with more wisdom and life experience.
As she makes her way through, she is able to draw on her past to build resilience and a deeper understanding of how she wants to be in the world.
