{"id":19353,"date":"2026-10-02T18:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/?p=19353"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:46:57","slug":"a-middle-aged-woman-rages-reviewed-by-michael-escoubas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/02\/a-middle-aged-woman-rages-reviewed-by-michael-escoubas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Middle-Aged Woman Rages Reviewed by Michael Escoubas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Nothing could have prepared me to write a review of A Middle Aged Woman Rages, by Melissa J\u00f8rgenrud Helton. Having written well over three hundred book reviews, I have never encountered a collection this outrageous, this angry, this mission focused. Yet, in the same breath, I have yet to engage with a work so compelling, so honest, and so \u201cneeded\u201d by western culture. Helton is fresh, bold, and raw. These observations are not in the least pejorative. But they are true.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reviewed by Michael Escoubas for &#8220;Quill &amp; Parchment.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the rest of the review at <a href=\"https:\/\/quillandparchment.com\/archives\/Oct2026\/book.html\">https:\/\/quillandparchment.com\/archives\/Oct2026\/book.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Melissa-rage-front-cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Melissa-rage-front-cover.png 546w, https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Melissa-rage-front-cover-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing could have prepared me to write a review of A Middle Aged Woman Rages, by Melissa J\u00f8rgenrud Helton. Having written well over three hundred book reviews, I have never encountered a collection this outrageous, this angry, this mission focused. Yet, in the same breath, I have yet to engage with a work so compelling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[757,28,772,649,384],"class_list":["post-19353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-a-middle-aged-woman-rages","tag-accents-publishing","tag-melissa-jorgenrud-helton","tag-poetry","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19357,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions\/19357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}