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STRANGERS TO OURSELVES by Rachel Aviv

Submitted by mcutler on Fri, 2022-07-15 21:24
Posted on July 15, 2022 in
STRANGERS TO OURSELVES by Rachel Aviv
STRANGERS TO OURSELVES by Rachel Aviv was featured on Lit Hub’s list of “The Most-Anticipated Books of the Year 2022, Part Two.” Lit Hub deputy editor Emily Firetog writes: “Rachel Aviv’s New Yorker pieces are always stunning portraits of people in crisis, but her stories of complex medical mysteries are some of the most striking and memorable pieces of journalism I’ve read. In her debut nonfiction book, Aviv investigates people who have ‘come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are’—a woman who lives as a saint, an incarcerated mother recovering after psychosis, a man looking for revenge on psychoanalysts. In examining the way we tell stories about disorders of the mind, Aviv questions the very core of what is normal and what is reality. An incredibly researched, empathetic, and moving book.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish the book on September 13, 2022.