Release Date:- 2025-09-23
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ āI canāt imagine any woman reading this without feeling seen, inspired, and totally empowered.ā āMel Robbins ā¢ āA MASTERPIECE, you guys. This memoir by the great Jen Hatmaker *cannot* be missed. I was riveted as if to a thriller and touched/moved/inspired in ways I canāt quite articulate yet. Just please read. Youāll thank me.ā āElin Hilderbrand, on Instagram
From Jen Hatmakerābeloved New York Times bestselling author and host of the For the Love podcastāa brutally honest, funny, and revealing memoir about the traumatic end of her twenty-six-year-long marriage, and the beginning of a different kind of love story.
At 2:30 a.m. on July 11, 2020, Jen Hatmaker woke up to her husband of twenty-six years whispering in his phone to another woman from their bed. It was the end of life as she knew it. In the months that followed, she went from being a shiny, funny, popular leader to a divorced wreck on antidepressants and antianxiety meds, parenting five kids alone with no clue about the functioning of her own bank accounts. Having led millions of women for over a decadeāurging them to embrace authenticity, find radical agency, and create healthy relationshipāshe felt like a catastrophic failure.
In Awake, Jen shares for the first time what happened when she found herself completely lost at seaāand how she made it to shore. In candid, surĀprisingly funny vignettes spanning forty years of girlhood, marriage, and parenting, Jen lays bare the disorienting upheaval of midlifeāthe implosion of a marriage, the unraveling of religious and cultural systems, and the grief that accompanies change you didnāt ask for. And, drawing on all resourcesāfrom without and withināJen dares to question the systems beneath the whole house of cards, and to reckon with the myths, half-truths, and lies that brought her to this point.
More than one womanās story, Awake is a critical analysis of the story given to all of us: the story of gender limitations, religious subservience, body shame, self-erasure. With refreshing candor, Jen explores a midlife renaissanceāgrieving whatās lost, cherishing possibility, and entering the second half of life wide awake.
