Raising children who haven't quite launched. Loving elders who are living longer than any generation before them. Hasmik Rakijian's third book is a close, honest memoir of the sandwich generation — and a hopeful reminder that the endorphins, and the faith, to carry it are still within reach.
Raising children who haven't quite launched. Loving elders who are living longer than any generation before them. Hasmik Rakijian's third book is a close, honest memoir of the sandwich generation — and a hopeful reminder that the endorphins, and the faith, to carry it are still within reach.
No wonder we need those endorphins to help us endure and survive the sandwich generation we have become.
Prior generations didn't necessarily face this. Elders passed in their sixties and seventies; children moved out, married, and started families of their own while their parents were still in their forties.
Now millennial children launch later, and elders live into their eighties, nineties, and beyond—often wanting company, entertainment, or simple help navigating an increasingly complicated world.
At fifty-eight, with a husband of sixty-two, Hasmik still has children in their late twenties needing support, alongside elders who once numbered six and, by publication, had become two.
This is a magnified, emotional look at what the sandwich generation quietly carries—real, raw, and unflinchingly honest.
As in her earlier books, Rakijian's poetic and faith-based philosophy runs through every page.
Her hope is simple: that readers find some inkling of hope, knowing they aren't alone—and, at the very least, share a laugh at the experience of being squished in the middle.
An Endorphin Release, Now Please! — An Expose of the Sandwich Generation, by Hasmik Rakijian.