Life After Ambition

<b>“With sly humor and piercing clarity” (Amanda Montell, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author), and</b> <b>channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for <i>The Cut</i>, Amil Niazi stylishly interrogates the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood, and life after ambition.</b><BR><BR>Building off her wildly popular viral essays “Losing My Ambition” and “The Mindfuck of Mid-Life,” Amil Niazi explores what life looks like “post-ambition.” With “perceptive and relatable” (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>) prose, she interrogates her own evolving ambitions, and how it intersects with adulthood, motherhood, age, identity, class, and race, and how it has shaped her and a generation of millennials. And—most importantly—now that she is done with ambition: what happens next?<BR> <BR> An achingly relatable, intensely funny punch to the gut which reveals that, though we hide them from one another, we all have the same painful bruises. At its core, <i>Life After Ambition</i> is about optimism—about the joy of choosing something different and the thrill of finding ourselves when we thought all was lost. A whip-smart reimagination of how to live our lives, <i>Life After Ambition</i> reclaims mediocrity to tell us that it is okay to NOT have ambitions but to try and live a life that is true to who we are.