Influencer and Podcaster Jen Hatmaker Announces Tell-All Memoir ‘Awake’ (Exclusive)

Jen Hatmaker is getting candid about her divorce in a new memoir.

The New York Times bestselling author, podcaster and influencer is focusing the lens inward in her upcoming memoir, entitled Awake, set to be published in September. Her story will address her 26 years of marriage and its downfall, social media’s role in her life and her “messy and magical midlife rebirth.”

Hatmaker’s memoir begins in the middle of a July night in 2020, when she awoke to her husband in their bed, calling another woman.

“In the months that followed, she went from being a shiny, funny, popular leader, to a divorced wreck on antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds parenting five kids alone with no clue about her own bank accounts,” reads the book’s official synopsis. “Having led millions of women for over a decade — urging them to embrace authenticity, find radical agency and create healthy relationships — this seemed nothing less than total failure.”

Awake spans the course of 40 years, including moments from Hatmaker’s childhood, relationship and parenthood.

The memoir candidly demystifies the “disorienting upheaval” of middle age — including marriage, religion, culture and the grief that occurs when any (or all) of them change.

“Drawing on all her resources — from without and from within — Jen dares to question the systems beneath the whole house of cards, and to reckon with the myths, half-truths and lies that brought her to this point,” the synopsis adds.

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Hatmaker is also the author of 14 previous books, four of which are New York Times bestsellers. She hosts the podcast For the Love, a weekly conversation show that hosts a broad range of guests.

Awake will hit shelves on Sept. 23, 2025 and is available now for preorder, wherever books are sold.