If I Knew Then by Jann Arden

If I Knew Then by Jann Arden

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Jann Arden-bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star-is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.

Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun- "Being the age I am-that so many women are-is just the best time of my life."

Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self-and all of us-that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose-not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures."

JANN ARDEN is a singer, songwriter, radio personality, actor, author, and social media sensation. With her debut album, Time for Mercy, which included the breakthrough single I Would Die for You, the multi-platinum, award-winning musician burst onto the music scene in 1993. Insensitive, her international breakthrough song, followed a year later. She has four books to her credit, the most recent of which being the Canadian bestseller Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Humor in the Kitchen as My Mother Deals with Memory Loss. She is in high demand as a public speaker and has appeared on CBC's Rick Mercer Report and CTV's The Social as a guest host.

Jann's most recent album, These Are the Days, was published in March of this year and is now available. She may be found on Twitter @jannarden, Facebook, and Instagram.

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ISBN 13	9780735279971
ISBN 10	0735279977
Title	If I Knew Then
Author	Jann Arden
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Prentice Hall Press
Year published	2020-10-27
Number of pages	216
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.