U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?

Drawing on more than three hundred case studies, a close-up look at the psychology of major midlife U-turns examines the phenomenon from a philosophical, literary, scientific, and psychological perspective to explain why the life-transforming phenomenon occurs and its implications for our continuing struggle with the issues of life choices and self-identity. 50,000 first printing.