“Brava! I’m giving a standing ovation for GRAND FINALES, a buoyant and inspiring book about real life women who’ve found joy and fulfillment in their second and even third acts, proving that life is what we make of it, and that happiness is possible at any age.... With GRAND FINALES, she's given me exactly what I need right now: Hope.” —Meg Cabot, best-selling author of The Princess Diaries
“In GRAND FINALES, Susan Gubar, a remarkable old lady herself... transforms the meaning of old age and late life-creativity. GRAND FINALES is a tour de force.” —Nancy K. Miller, author of My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism
“GRAND FINALES is a fascinating exploration of the diverse flowering of women creatives as they confront—and embrace—the challenges of aging.... It’s a roadmap for living with the conviction that our “best is” always “yet to come.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University
“Like the nine women artists and writers whose late-life creative energy she discusses in GRAND FINALES, Susan Gubar’s critical powers are exuberant and bold in this late-life work of feminist criticism.”—Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita of English at Princeton University