Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for The Cut, Amil Niazi stylishly explores the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood, and life beyond ambition.

Building on her wildly popular viral essays “Losing My Ambition” and “The Mindfuck of Mid-Life,” Amil Niazi examines what life looks like “post-ambition.” With clever humor and a deep literary sensibility, she questions her own evolving ambitions and how they intersect with adulthood, motherhood, age, identity, class, and race, and how they have shaped her and a generation of Millennials.

And—most importantly—now that she is done with ambition: what happens next? An painfully relatable, intensely funny punch to the gut reveals that, although we hide them from one another, we all bear the same painful bruises.

At its core, Losing My Ambition is about optimism—about the joy of choosing something different and the thrill of discovering ourselves when we thought everything was lost. A sharp reimagining 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 true to ourselves.

Pages: 224, Year of Publication: 0212, Dimensions: 14x14cm