The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually transcending it, are the best antidote to our fears. Middletown, America is a book of hope. All Americans were hit with some degree of trauma on September 11, , but no place was hit harder than Middletown, New Jersey.
Her subjects are the women, men, and children who remained after the devastation and who are putting their lives back to-gether. What would become of the young wives carrying children their husbands would never see, wives who had watched their dreams literally go up in smoke in that amphitheater of death across the river?
Here, too, is the story of the widow and widower who met in the waiting room of a mental-health agency and brought each other back from the brink of despair across a bridge of love. Sheehy also reveals how bereft mothers who will never have another son or daughter found reasons to recommit to life. And she follows in the footsteps of the robbed children, documenting the incredible resilience of four-year-olds, the anger of teenagers, the courage of sisters and brothers.
As a journalist who conducted more than nine hundred interviews, Gail Sheehy is an impeccable researcher. As a writer with a novelistic gift, she weaves the individual stories into a compelling narrative. As their lives become both longer and increasingly unpredictable, men today are faced with the urgent need to reinvent themselves. Hundreds of men, celebrities as well as everyday heroes, have told their stories to Gail Sheehy.
Sheehy makes the case that it is men in middle life who have the best chance to become masters of their fates, to understand what is missing and forge new directions to invigorate the second half of their lives. Where can you find new passion and purpose? How can you deal with male menopause? How can you survive a job change or downsizing? What strategies can defeat depression? What keeps a man young? When men and women face the same passage with different needs, how does marriage survive?
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For the most part, though, he artfully. New Passages tells us we have the ability to customize our own life cycle. This groundbreaking work is certain to awaken and permanently alter the way we think about ourselves. Here is Passages II, an upbeat, fact-filled, people-rich, but ultimately unsatisfying sequel to the bestseller. Sheehy's earlier Passages borrowed from Erik Erikson and Daniel Levinson of Yale to popularize the theory that the lives of adults as well as children are marked by stages of development, such as the Trying Twenties and Catch, until age 50, when it's smooth sailing.
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