Prologue: The voyage of life -- The tangled transition to adulthood -- Achieving intimacy -- I do : the evolution of marriage -- I don't : alternatives to marriage -- The trials of parenting -- Finding fulfillment in work -- The angst of adulthood -- Epilogue: Reclaiming adulthood
Summary
Steven Mintz reconstructs the emotional interior of a life stage too often relegated to self-help books and domestic melodramas. He describes the challenges of adulthood today and puts them into perspective by exploring how past generations achieved intimacy and connection, raised children, sought meaning in work, and responded to loss
