Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60

By: Sarah Dunn and Natasha Josefowitz and Erica Manfred and Jonathan Ned Katz and David Levy and Dustin Beall Smith and Paul Lauter and Barbara Abercrombie and Irvin Peckham and Susan Ostrov Weisser and Amy Rogers and Phyllis Carito and Mimi Schwartz and Doris Friedensohn and Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hood and Alice F. Freed and Cynthia McVay and Neil Stein and Laura Broadwell and Stephanie M. Brown and Elizabeth Locke and Candida B. Korman and Margie Kaplan and Hedva Lewittes and Rett Zabriskie and William Wiesner and Phyllis Bogen and Judith Ugelow Blak and Linda Wright Moore and Jean Y. Leung and Jan Jacobson and Stephanie Speer and Sandi Goldie and Jim Bronson and Vincent Valenti and Stacey Parkins Millett and Eugene Roth and Isabel Hill and Susan O’Malley and Susan Bickley and Bonnie Fails and Angela Page and Tierl Thompson and Idris Walters

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Synopsis: Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connection as old age encroaches is palpable here, with more and more senior singles searching online. Those who find new partners explore issues that most relationships encounter at any age, as well as some that are unique to elder relationships. These include having had previous partners and a complicated and deep personal history; family and friends’ reactions to an older person’s dating; alternative models to marriage (such as sharing space or living apart); having more than one partner at the same time; one’s aging body, appearance, and sexuality; and the pressure of time and the specter of illness and death.