Non-Fiction: Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction by Marcia Reynolds

Even women who don’t consider themselves to be high achievers will find consolation and potential direction in Wander Woman (Berrett-Koehler). Organizational psychologist and certified master coach Marcia Reynolds here explores some of the feminine myths woven through the modern corporation.

Reynolds posits that there is a new generation of women in the workplace: they are both driven and disoriented; confident and anxious; ambitious and disconnected and, more than anything, they are restless.

The paradox is that although the women feel confident about their choices, they are plagued by their restlessness. This “soulful agitation” leads them to accomplish great things but it leaves them aching for what’s missing.

Part workbook and part manifesto of a new generation, Reynolds takes her readers through the realities and the steps to a kind of recovery. “We are heroines on a journey better walked together than alone,” Reynolds writes at one point. On words such as these, revolutions are begun. Monica Stark is an American writer and editor and a contributing editor to January Magazine. She currently makes her home on a liveaboard boat somewhere in the North Pacific.◊

Monica Stark is an American writer and editor and a contributing editor to January Magazine. She currently makes her home on a liveaboard boat somewhere in the North Pacific.