“Scholarly, wise, elegant, and deeply insightful, the book is an indispensable resource for all who work with people in the awe- and angst-filled years between eighteen and thirty-two. Upcoming generations have fateful choices to make about their lives and our common future that we need them to take up faithfully and fully
awake. Parks, a master teacher, lights the way—theirs and ours.”
Diana Chapman Walsh, president emerita, Wellesley College, board chair, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

“The things at stake in this . . . edition are even more profound and urgent than they were when the book was first published. This is not a little story about young people. It is a big story about humanity and the persistent quest for meaning and purpose . . . the key is mentorship, and the payoff should be big—for all of us.”
Richard A. Settersten Jr., coauthor, Not Quite Adults

“With an intellectual edge honed by experience, [Parks] writes with her characteristic compassion and brilliant reflections on the big questions of our time. Her research and explorations reignite the spirit, purpose, and calling of our common work.”
Manuel N. Gomez, vice chancellor, emeritus, University of California, Irvine

“No one who cares deeply about people in their twenties should be without this
book. In Sharon Daloz Parks’s lyrical company we learn so much more about their
biggest possibilities—and our own.”
Robert Kegan, author, In Over Our Heads, professor, Harvard Graduate School of
Education