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Matthew Redmond, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Lille

EXPLAINED: How midlife became a crisis - The Real Truth

The term 'midlife crisis' didn't enter the lexicon until 1965, but its gestation stretched across the 18th and 19th centuries. Paul Taylor/Stone via Getty Images

In the acknowledgments of her 2024 novel “All Fours,” Miranda July explains that she was inspired by a series of conversations about “physical and emotional midlife changes” with several women close to her.

“And while there is almost no trace of these actual conversations in the book,” she adds, “they made writing it more necessary.”

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