Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition - Hardcover

The author of the bestselling Composing a Life offers her own revolutionary take on the role of longer life spans and recent lifestyle changes in reshaping individual identity and selffulfillment. 35,000 first printing.

l Circles, Overlapping Lives, bestselling author and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks with an inspired eye at how our very concepts of personal identity and shared fulfillment are changing. Living longer than ever before, alongside increasingly diverse neighbors, we are obliged to rethink our lives at every stage of the life cycle, to question expected roles and relationships, and to discover new possibilities. This is a book rich with the telling observations and subtle wisdom that the author has made her trademarks.                        Eloquent and persuasive, Bateson not only explores the changing stages of our lives but offers a profound insight: We live with strangers. We meet strangers not only on the street but at the breakfast table and in the mirror. We are constantly surprised or mystified by those closest to us--children, parents, and spouses-