Lives Across Time/Growing Up follows seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. This book describes their life stories, which may transform and enrich the reader's life.

In working with these people, the authors heard something basic: stories people tell about themselves. While a life may fall into a group--i.e. share characteristics with others--the individual's story remains compelling: to group people is to some degree against psychoanalysis, a humanizing discipline. The authors allow the subjects...