Sara Davison's "Leap:" "Loose Change" Enters Late Middle Age

30 years ago Sara Davison wrote "Loose Change," the bestseller about three boomer women coming of age in the Sixties. This time around her subject matter is midlife and the choices faced navigating middle age.

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Davidson interviews people from across the country and from all walks of life, including such icons as Carly Simon, Tom Hayden, Tracy Kidder, Jane Fonda, Ram Dass, and Iman, as well as teachers, writers, psychologists, businesspeople, and spiritual leaders.

• How does a high-powered person learn to walk down the ladder gracefully?
• How can women continue to be sensual and not touch-deprived?
• How do we arrange to grow old with our friends?
• What will be the fire at the center of our lives?
• Why are we still here?

Davidson discusses a transition that everyone must go through that she calls the "narrows." "In the narrows, you're in the dark, stripped of what you thought was your identity, and must grapple with questions like: What do you really want to do with the time left? What will make you feel most alive? That your being here has mattered?"

Davidson says that you may do it in your late 40s or possibly not until your 70s, but "if you don't do it voluntarily, the world or your body will force you to."

Consider yourself warned.