February 25, 2007 11:23 AM

The Narrows, Part 2
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 11:23 AM

Following up on my post on Feb. 21 on Sara Davidson's Leap!, you can now read Dan Wakefield's review of the book from today's Globe:

When she looked around with her journalistic eye, she saw that "others are going through similar transitions and that as a group [the baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964] we're being stripped of our relevance, our primacy. We're turning fifty at the rate of one every seven seconds, and the advance guard, the icons who set the tone -- Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Joni Mitchell . . . are well into their sixties or would be if they were alive. We did not plan for this; we did not know that at fifty-five we might have thirty more years of vigorous health, lust, and a desire to contribute and create." She set out to interview "friends and strangers who led me to others who are making their way, experimenting and asking: What's the next part of life about? How do we make the leap?"