In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age Teen & Young Adult European Historical Fiction Table of Contents Chapter 1

Table of Contents Chapter 1

the Hunley was raised from the bottom of the sea and towed ashore

the friends become players in the destruction of an international crime syndicate stretching from the Kennedy Airport to the streets of New York

Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide

she argues that we—as a culture and as individuals—have learned to avoid facing pain

In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age Teen & Young Adult European Historical Fiction Table of Contents Chapter 1From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important and immensely readable book finally fills the gap. In Our Prime is a biography of the idea of middle age from