<p>We are bombarded by extremes. Life is presented to us in our social media feeds, <br /> by our politicians, and sometimes by our opinionated friends and relatives as if<br /> every issue were simple and only open to two opposing sides. In our real experiences, <br /> though, we often find ourselves between things -- between opinions, <br /> between places where we spend our time, between identities, between moods, <br /> between life stages, between networks of people, and even between preferences<br /> for clothing styles, food, and furniture. Between: Living Life in Neither Extreme<br /> takes issues that emerge from the news, popular culture, and the author's past<br /> and present experiences and plops them into a set of essays that reflect the reality<br /> of our complex and messy lives. From family life to politics, from body<br /> issues to the workplace, each essay contains bits of sociological wisdom from<br /> the author, who has spent the last two decades helping students learn about the<br /> blurred boundaries of our everyday social lives.<br /> </p>