50 x 50

As a memoir told through fifty poems, 50x50 charts one woman's journey across the wide and often rocky terrain of young adulthood to midlife. Through poems written from ages 22 to 50, Beauvais traces her path through self-discovery and relationship-building in her twenties, the alternating excitement and ambivalence of new motherhood in her thirties, and the peaks and valleys of raising teenagers and the fracture of divorce in her forties — held together by a resilient river of friendships that saw her through it all. With humor, honesty, vulnerability, and warmth, this is a relatable and uplifting story of ongoing transformation, of paying attention, and of finding your way back to yourself. For readers at any stage of life, 50x50 is a collection both deeply intimate and richly universal — giving voice to one life's everyday moments in all their fragility, beauty, sorrow, and joy.