If a midlife crisis is the least chartered territory in human development, then the results of a woman's midlife crisis have only begun to be unearthed. The "do it all" generation of females - those who drove hard for the high power career - are turning forty, the ripe age for a midlife crisis. Will they, like a man, buy an expensive sports car; a motor cycle perhaps? Will they, like their counterparts, begin to date younger men? Or will a woman's midlife crisis be unique to their own gender - setting new precedence?
Author Dana Atkinson certainly set a precedence doing something most of us just think about. But imagine what you would do when you realized the life you'd spent seventeen years creating wasn't the life you wanted after all.
In "Domestic Departures", an intense and serendipitous relationship spurs a workaholic professional to confront this very question as she approaches the mirror age of forty. At the expense of all else, Dana let that question lead her on a surprising journey into herself, and into the heart of a continent of which she had only dreamed. What she finds there is a self she had never met, and a home she had never known.
As Dana says, "Sometimes the answers to the most complicated questions of life come from the simplist, most unexpected of places."
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