“Rafting through remote Alaska with the ghost of your best friend - Barusch takes us deep into troubled waters. Read this when you have wanderlust. Read it when you’re thinking about leaving your husband.”

—Kit Hodge
Author of Fairy Tales With Killer Shoes

“The True Shape of Raindrops is a poignant and moving story of friendship and sorrow, beautifully told. Amanda Barusch’s graceful writing explores the aftermath of loss and the bonds of friendship that unite us.” 

—Cynthia Lim
Author of Wherever you are: A memoir of love, marriage, and brain injury

“Jump-started by her own unexpected and shocking experience of ageism in academe, Amanda Barusch’s Aging Angry is eminently reasonable for a book about anger, the righteous, intelligent kind that surfaces as we grow older and are likely to encounter and observe more injustice—especially toward older adults, women, people with disabilities or low incomes, and later-life activists who fight the power. Barusch’s fascinating interviews with “grumpy, cantankerous, and obstreperous elders” deepen our interest in using this primary emotion effectively to heal our nations of the common curse of ageism and improve the world.”

—Margaret Morganroth Gullette
_{author of Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People}