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Widely considered one of the defining voices of her generation, Leslie Jamison is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams as well as the novel The Gin Closet. Raised in Los Angeles and educated at Harvard, she now lives in New York.Essays of compassion and conviction... Jamison covers a wide range of subjects with deep empathy and intelligence. . . Perhaps all writing is an innate, primal scream, and Jamison - astutely - knows and embodies this with compassion and vigour
- Sinéad Gleeson, Irish Times
Railing, roaring essays on humanity... Jamison has time for everyone... excellent
Telegraph
Wide-ranging... [Jamison's] language is typically lush... [she] picks excellent topics... Jamison walks a careful line between scepticism and compassion - never sacrificing her subjects' dignity... fascinating
New Statesman
One of the most esteemed contemporary names in nonfiction...Biting and honest
Book Riot
Generous in her sympathy and probing in her intellect... [Jamison's] writing is extraordinarily precise, rendering both the extraordinary and the everyday as equally transparent, equally miraculous
In the Moment
These elegant essays are unfailingly rich in philosophical rumination
Observer