September 21, 2001

If 20-Somethings Face a Crisis, They Invited It

By NANCY DONEHOWER

Since the publication earlier this year of Alexandra Robbins's and Abby Wilner's Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties (J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2001), we've heard an awful lot about the doubts and difficulties faced by 20-somethings assessing their lives. Apparently, the "quarterlife crisis" erupts as one passes out of a period in life when "goals were clear-cut and the ways to achieve them were mapped out distinctly," and into a time when life offers multiple