ORDERS

Readings Orders 0

DEMANDS

Readings Demands 0

Strangers To Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
[Paperback - 2024]
Out of Stock
Availability in 2-4 weeks on receipt of order
List Price: £10.99
Our Price: Rs.2795 Rs.2515
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.280
Category: Self Help
Sub-category: Self Improvement
Publisher: Vintage Uk | ISBN: 9781529111651 | Pages: 288
Shipping Weight: .500 | Dimensions: null

New York Times Book Review Top 10 Books of the Year

‘Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness’ The Times

There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which…

Strangers to Ourselves shares the experiences of five people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. It asks, do the stories we tell around mental illness affect its course, its outcomes, even our identities?

Drawing on in-depth reporting, written testimonies and formative events in her own childhood, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a subtle, compassionate, revelatory account of how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress.

‘Aviv finds language for the most ineffable registers of human experience’ Wall Street Journal

‘Profoundly intelligent… superbly written portraits’ Guardian

A best book of the year in the Los Angeles Times, Time, Washington Post, New Yorker, and Vogue

Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, criminal justice, and other subjects. In 2022, she won a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. A 2019 national fellow at New America, she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her work on Strangers to Ourselves. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Bestsellers in Self Help

View All