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Splinters

Another Kind of Love Story

by Leslie Jamison ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true,
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn

Essays

by Leslie Jamison ...

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 Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book.With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays ... Read more

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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 Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book.With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays
... Read more

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The Recovering

Intoxication and Its Aftermath

by Leslie Jamison ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of
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The Daughters

A Novel

by Leslie Jamison ...

An electrifying new novel from Leslie Jamison, one of our most beloved contemporary voices: the epic story of three women connected by the haunting power of an ancient mythEvery monster has two mothers—the woman who bore him, and the pain that shapes him. They raise him together.Knossos, 1550 BC: Newly wed to the tyrannical King Minos, the witch queen Pasiphaë makes a dangerous bargain. After ... Read more

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An electrifying new novel from Leslie Jamison, one of our most beloved contemporary voices: the epic story of three women connected by the haunting power of an ancient mythEvery monster has two mothers—the woman who bore him, and the pain that shapes him. They raise him together.Knossos, 1550 BC: Newly wed to the tyrannical King Minos, the witch queen Pasiphaë makes a dangerous bargain. After
... Read more

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American Epidemic

Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis

Edited by John McMillian ...

A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis everJust a few years ago, the opioid crisis could be referred to as a "silent epidemic," but it is no longer possible to argue that the scourge of opiate addiction being overlooked. This is in large part thanks to the extraordinary writings featured in this volume, which includes some of the most ... Read more

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A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis everJust a few years ago, the opioid crisis could be referred to as a "silent epidemic," but it is no longer possible to argue that the scourge of opiate addiction being overlooked. This is in large part thanks to the extraordinary writings featured in this volume, which includes some of the most
... Read more
The Gin Closet

by Leslie Jamison ...

From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison’s “exquisitely beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about three generations of women and the inescapable brutality of love.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, ... Read more

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison’s “exquisitely beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about three generations of women and the inescapable brutality of love.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,
... Read more
The Empathy Exams

Essays

by Leslie Jamison ...

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic ... Read more

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From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic
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The Best American Essays 2017

Edited by Leslie Jamison ...

Series series The Best American Series
This anthology edited by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Empathy Exams offers "essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever" ( Publishers Weekly)."The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; ... Read more

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This anthology edited by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Empathy Exams offers "essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever" ( Publishers Weekly)."The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions;
... Read more
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The Daughters

A Novel

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An electrifying new novel from Leslie Jamison, one of our most beloved contemporary voices: the epic story of three women connected by the haunting power of an ancient mythEvery monster has two mothers—the woman who bore him, and the pain that shapes him. They raise him together.Knossos, 1550 BC: Newly wed to the tyrannical King Minos, the witch queen Pasiphaë makes a dangerous bargain. After ... Read more

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An electrifying new novel from Leslie Jamison, one of our most beloved contemporary voices: the epic story of three women connected by the haunting power of an ancient mythEvery monster has two mothers—the woman who bore him, and the pain that shapes him. They raise him together.Knossos, 1550 BC: Newly wed to the tyrannical King Minos, the witch queen Pasiphaë makes a dangerous bargain. After
... Read more

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Letter to a Stranger

Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

Edited by Colleen Kinder ...

“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable ... Read more

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“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable
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The Recovering

Intoxication and Its Aftermath

by Leslie Jamison ...

Narrated by Leslie Jamison ...

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16 hours 6 min

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of
... Read more

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The Empathy Exams

Essays

by Leslie Jamison ...

Narrated by Leslie Jamison ...

Unabridged

11 hours 22 min

**From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection.A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014**Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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**From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection.A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014**Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we
... Read more

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