The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50

Sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot interviewed dozens of people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s who were reinventing their lives — changing careers, discovering new passions, taking risks they’d deferred for decades. This book makes the case that the years between 50 and 75 are not a coda but a genuinely new chapter, full of possibility.