Need the Perfect Thank-You Gift?

Here it is — if you’re visiting a book person, or actually ANY person 30ish or older. (With an addendum for those younger)

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Good-Guesthood 101: Send a thank-you book.

I regularly send books as thank-you gifts to hosts, friends, whomevers. Picture books to small children, sports books to guys (and occasionally girls,) cookbooks to serious chefs; I’m just a hopeless book person. If you’re a traveling person of any age and want a guaranteed-to-please suggestion, read on:

On a recent trip I visited with an assortment of 30-somethings-to-60-somethings, every one of whom seems to be dealing with aging parents, friends or relatives. (The rest of us older-than-60-something are stewing over our own age-related issues.)

Thank-you gift? Done. I just emailed my local bookstore asking them to order another bunch of copies of Elderhood. One each will go to kind friends and relations who will later, I know, thank me. (Alternatively, you can have them shipped directly from Bookshop.org, or even Amazon if you have to do that.)

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, by fine physician/award-winning writer Louise Aronson, was described in the New York Times as “an essential, empathetic look at a…