You might not fully understand the menopause experience unless you go through it — but author Catherine Newman’s latest novel “Sandwich,” might get you pretty close. Catherine and Mayo Clinic menopause expert Dr. Taryn Smith join us to discuss the book, which wonderfully captures the complicated feelings and sometimes surprising symptoms of menopause.

This episode was made possible by the generous support of Ken Stevens. 

We talked with:

• Catherine Newman has written numerous columns, articles, and canned-bean recipes for magazines and newspapers, and her essays have been widely anthologized. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Sandwich” and the novel “We All Want Impossible Things,” the memoirs “Waiting for Birdy” and “Catastrophic Happiness,” the middle-grade novel “One Mixed-Up Night,” and the bestselling kids’ life-skills books “How to Be a Person” and “What Can I Say?” She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
• Dr. Taryn Smith is a board-certified internal medicine physician, women's health specialist and certified menopause practitioner. She completed her internal medicine training at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida before completing a two-year women's health fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Her clinical areas of interest include menopause, sexual health, complex contraception and gender-based differences in medicine. Dr. Smith has been active in research, education and community service. She is also the author of several scientific publications.  Dr. Smith strives to provide individualized care based on the unique needs of her patients.

Can't get enough?

Purchase “Sandwich."

• From  Amazon.com.
• From Bookshop.org.
• From Barnes & Noble.

Learn more about menopause:

• Read the Mayo Clinic Press book, "The New Rules of Menopause."

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