From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exam
By the New York Times bestselling author of THE EMPATHY EXAMS, an exploration of addiction, and the stories we tell about it, that reinvents the traditional recovery memoir.With its deeply personal an
Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to de
AS A YOUNG WOMAN, Tilly flees home for the hollow underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. One day, after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family,
From personal loss to phantom diseases, a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeBeginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms
A searing chronicle of the life of a young ex-convict and heroin addict in 1960’s Harlem, an unsparing portrait of a man who couldn’t free himself from the horrors of addiction Blues
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”— Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck Is My DuckThe last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight
Why lies He in such mean estateWhere ox and ass are feeding?Good Christian, fear: for sinners hereThe silent Word is pleading.—Willam Chatterton Dix, "What Child Is This?", 1865Disas
