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Life After Ambition

A "Good Enough" Memoir

Av Amil Niazi

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Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for The Cut, Amil Niazi stylishly interrogates the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood, and life after ambition. 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 sly humor and a deep literary sensibility, 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? 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, Losing My Ambition 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, Losing My Ambition 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.
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Amil Niazi is a writer and producer. She writes The Cut’s series on parenting, The Hard Part, and covers work and motherhood and how the two intersect. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.

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“Niazi has made a career of being the person you turn to for advice on balancing kids, work, relationships, and all the other facets of a busy life. What’s so appealing about her new memoir, though, is its absolute avoidance of prescription. Niazi is refreshingly candid about how miserable she was, trying to do things the ‘right’ way for most of her life. Life After Ambition offers no tidy conclusions; Niazi is telling her story in medias res, inviting readers to figure the whole mess out with her—and in this era of gentle-parenting TikToks and general advice oversaturation, that feels like a gift.”—Emma Specter, Vogue “Niazi leans in to the relatable tone of her popular essays, inviting a genera­tion of working parents to join her as she con­siders ‘the possibility of “enough.’ Though her story is unique, it is this universal questioning that will ring true to any reader also considering the monumental step into parenting. The authenticity of her desire comes through in her voice, especially as she attempts to recon­cile her career goals and her role as a devoted mother. Readers will appreciate her honesty here, just as they did as she first found her audience. Perfect for anyone who believes there is more to life than work, more to par­enthood than juggling packed calendars and more than enough reasons to be good enough."—Sara Beth West, BookPage “Niazi's Millennial peers will relate to her realization of the never-arriving payoff of working one's way up in a so-called meritocracy, and to her terror at bringing children into a world they've been told is ending their whole lives, yet doing it anyway.”—Booklist “Niazi’s storytelling is perceptive and relatable, beautifully drawing connections between her individual experience and systems of oppression. . . . Overall a powerful and generous work. A warm, vulnerable memoir about trading ambition for sincerity and joy.”—Kirkus Reviews

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