The Shedding Season™
Coming of age is not a phase; it is a recurring contagion. A prestige narrative architecture that maps the blast radius of a matriarch’s late-life metamorphosis, forcing a dynasty to dismantle the performative stability of adulthood.
Indicts the Western myth of "finished" adulthood by reframing the midlife crisis as a necessary biological molting. Operationalizes a "ripple-form" anthology structure to rotate the lens from catalyst to witness, exposing how one person’s liberation becomes another’s trauma. A high-fidelity examination of the violence required to shed a life that no longer fits.