If you have ovaries and a uterus, and are somewhere in your late 40s or beyond, you will have a body-informed epiphany. It might be barely noticeable. It may stop you in your tracks. You can see when it happens to and for Linda, Bridget Christie’s heroine in “The Change,” because it slaps her upside the head.
The wife and mother of two is clearing plates and trash after her 50th birthday party, planned by a husband who enjoys all the attention and didn't do any work to make it possible. She even had to bake her own cake. As she cleans house, Linda quietly taps a button on her digital watch to time each chore, recording the tally in a journal once it is completed.
