Winner of the Gustavus Myers Ctr/Study of Human Rights: Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award.

“You can't read this ground-breaking book without realizing that age could be different. It will be a more mature country that takes note of so important a voice.”

— Bill Moyers

“Original and provocative.”

— Christian Science Monitor (chosen a Notable Book of the Year)

“This complex book is an important intellectual resource for anyone who wants to think seriously about the way personal and cultural timelines can, or should, interact.”

— Publishers Weekly 

"Perhaps the most important contribution of her book is to call special attention to midlife, which has been a historically neglected life stage. [...] If success is measured by achieving the overarching goal of raising our age consciousness, then this book must surely be considered successful.”

— Katie E. Cherry et al, Biography 

“An important and engaging contribution to the new field of age studies.” 

— Charlene Ball, NWSA Newsletter