Book Reviews: Midlife Mavericks: Women reinventing their lives after forty.

Review by Lorena Havens for the Guadalajara Reporter:

Mexico's foreign retirement communities might seem an unlikely setting for a great adventure story, but in Midlife Mavericks, Ajijic author Karen Blue reminds us that courage comes in many forms. Through a highly readable series of face-to-face interviews, Blue chronicles the stories of seventeen "Indiana Joans... ordinary women who have made extraordinary choices".

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Review by Teresa Kendrick for the : Mexico Connect Magazine

In her first non-fiction book, Midlife Mavericks, author Karen Blue presents the stories of seventeen American and Canadian women who left their countries, families, and cultural roles to begin new lives in Mexico. In elegantly framed vignettes, unmarried women in the second halves of their lives are gently seduced by the author to reveal the whispered heartbreaks, deep dissatisfactions, lusty machisma, and unapologetic wanderlust that drove them southward and inward into what was for them uncharted territory. ...read more

Review by Alan Cogan for Mexico Connect Magazine

Here's an interesting collection of stories of nineteen women who came on their own to Mexico in recent years to settle in the Lake Chapala area. The book consists of seventeen interviews plus the story of the author herself. The women range in age from their 40's to their 80's. Their backgrounds and experiences and approaches to life are as varied as you can imagine. ...read more