How do people make meaning out of the transitions in their lives? In T urns in the Road: Narrative Studies of Lives in Transition, accomplish ed scholars explore highly personalized life narratives to help us und erstand significant transitions and turning points in the human life c ourse. Their analyses reveal the nuances of such transitions as adoles cents gaining a stronger sense of identity, recent graduates taking th eir place in the world of work, a young man struggling to overcome add iction, and middle-aged women coming to terms with divorce. Uniting th em all are dramatic epiphanies and conversions that lead to a new sens e of self in the world.