Strangers to ourselves : unsettled minds and the stories that make us
by Aviv, Rachel (Author)
Summary
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against t... Full description
- Prologue: Rachel "Someone better than me"
- Ray "Am I really this? Am I not this? What am I?"
- Bapu "Is this difficulty I am facing the lesson of total surrender?"
- Naomi "You're not listening to me"
- Laura "He could read my mind, as though I didn't need to explain myself"
- Epilogue: Hava "Stranger to myself".