The Crane Dance: Taking Flight in Midlife

Like many men today, Bill Finger experienced the perfect storm of job restructuring, shifting gender roles, and a pink slip. With young children, little money, and a fuzzy career vision, he hit an emotional bottom. Only then did he come to grips with long buried grief and guilt as a white Mississippian and Conscientious Objector as well as a family history of depression. This memoir recounts how his responses to major life transitions had hobbled him in dealing with fatherhood, breadwinning...