I am a big fan of Teri M. Brown and have loved every novel she has written: Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, An Enemy Like Me and Daughters of Green Mountain Gap (my personal favorite!). That’s why I knew I’d love Peg, Unhinged, too.

In it, we meet Peg, a middle-aged woman struggling through menopause to get it all together: her husband left, she lost her job and she drinks a tad too much.

But we don’t just meet Peg, we become her. Since the book is written in first person, we get an inside look at Peg’s life and truly feel what she’s going through.

Plus, the book alternates between Peg’s daily living and her heart-felt conversations with God bringing back Judy Blume vibes from my childhood reading and that means readers can connect even more to a woman just trying to hold it all together.

Yes, this book talks about big life shifts: divorce, losing your job and license and growing through the biggest hormone shifts of her life, but Peg does so with humor and heart and shows that we can, too.