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“Get ready to embrace the force that is Lela Bennett in this sassy, funny romance that will suck you in right from the first wedding crasher moment!” –Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Avery Flynn

Everything went wrong. And then she went gray.

At 47, newly divorced makeup…

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2 authors picked Gray Hair Don't Care as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is a celebration of many things: embracing your visible markers of age, seeking a new kind of relationship with an adult child, and the fabulous music of the 80’s and 90’s.

Any person from Generation X will absolutely see pieces of themselves and their friends in the characters in this book. Originally college friends, our couple finds themselves both back in New York and via a series of missteps and then some forced proximity (not only do they have to work together, they have to work for his daughter), they fall gloriously in love.

It is exactly what the author’s tagline says: A feel-good later-in-life romance. This book resonated with me for multiple reasons. First, I love a second chance romance. I love the inherent tension of characters hauling great big trunks of baggage into a relationship. Second, I stopped coloring my hair in 2018, and have been embracing my own gray. It’s not an easy step for many women to take, and I love that Karen wrote about a woman who not only accepts this outward sign of her maturity, but rocks it for all it’s worth. 

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