{"product_id":"life-after-ambition-amil-niazi-9781797197524","title":"Life After Ambition: A Good Enough Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Refreshingly candid...Niazi is telling her story \u003ci\u003ein medias res, \u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eChanneling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Amil Niazi \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003estylishly interrogates the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood, and life after ambition. \u003c\/b\u003eBuilding 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, \u003ci\u003eLosing My Ambition \u003c\/i\u003eis 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, \u003ci\u003eLosing My Ambition\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amil Niazi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1797197525\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781797197524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Audio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Amil Niazi","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48447084396799,"sku":"9781797197524","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_47ffcc94-773d-4be8-bf4d-739c6e5d92da.jpg?v=1777228715","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-after-ambition-amil-niazi-9781797197524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}