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LIFE REIMAGINED

Barbara Bradley Hagerty

The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife

A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good.
There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures.

In Life Reimagined, Hagerty explains that midlife is about renewal: It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your relationships, and transform the way you think about the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology—as well as her own story of midlife transformation—Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our futures.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is an award-winning journalist and spent nearly 20 years as a correspondent for NPR, covering law and religion. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Fingerprints of God, a recipient of the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship in Science and Religion and a Knight Fellowship at Yale Law School. Before joining NPR, she was a reporter at The Christian Science Monitor. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Published 2016-03-15 by Riverhead Books

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Published 2016-03-15 by Riverhead Books

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Insightful…This work is a joyous reminder that the middle years can be satisfying, resilient, and significant.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is a wise and amiable guide through the possibilities (and occasional pitfalls) of middle age. With her deft storytelling skills and exhaustive research, she reveals a truth that should hearten millions of people: Done right, midlife can be a time of remarkable engagement, purpose, and love.

Please don’t have a midlife crisis. But if you do, drop everything and read this book. Barbara Bradley Hagerty has written a sharp-eyed, big-hearted book destined for widespread dog-earing and underlining. Generous, wise and often funny, this book will leave you revitalized—and actually looking forward to life’s second act.

Barbara's featured article in The Atlantic, up online and just hitting subscriber mailboxes (with Obama on the cover), has already been shared over 7,000 times. Read more...

An upbeat look at the joys of middle age… For midlifers eager to ‘create a new habit of mind,’ Hagerty is a rousing cheerleader.

With humor, heart and hard-headed reporting, Barbara Bradley Hagerty manages to strike every nerve possessed by anyone entering midlife. The good news is that you end up smiling.

Life Reimagined is arguably the best book on middle life ever written. Not only is it in beautiful prose, but it’s also thoroughly researched. In order to feel understood and to anticipate the future, everybody from 30 to 70 should read this book. It is a joy.

Life Reimagined gave me hope that midlife, even with its struggles, can be a time of growth and deeper joy in relationships old and new. Read more...

This book is destined to become the bible for boomers seeking to make the most of the bonus decades opening up in midlife and beyond, as well as for those younger generations on their heels.

Riverhead launches Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s LIFE REIMAGINED tomorrow (March 15) with a six-part NPR series. Here are the first five segments, with the 6th slated to air this weekend.

LIFE REIMAGINED paints a portrait of middle age that is far from grim and decelerating. Midlife begins to seem like the second big phase of decision-making. Your identity has been formed; you know who you are; you’ve built up your resources; and now you have the chance to take the big risks precisely because your foundation is already secure. Read more...

This insightful book makes a compelling case for the notion that the best is yet to come… inspiring and perceptive… Read more...

Life Reimagined is a powerful and inspiring book. Hagerty writes with wit, warmth, and scientific rigor. She motivates us to delve into midlife with enthusiasm and reminds us that a life well lived requires thought and commitment—no matter what one's age.

Bradley uses the perfect mixture of anecdote and facts and knows how to tell a story. Inspiring and reassuring, this book is guaranteed to shake up anyone who is coasting through middle age, reminding them that it’s up to them to find their essence and shape their last years with purpose.