The Breaking Point: How Today's Women Are Navigating Midlife Crisis

"[The Breaking Point] suggests that the national conversation is about to have a hot flash. The passage through middle age of so large a clump of women . . . guarantees that some rules may have to be rewritten and boundaries moved to accommodate them." —Time magazine

From the cover of Time to Desperate Housewives, the phenomenon of women in midlife experiencing a period of tumultuous personal upheaval—a breaking point—has reached a peak in our culture. Today, more than 15 million baby boome...