RACHEL AVIV is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes
about psychology, medical ethics and criminal justice, among other
subjects. She is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature
Writing and the winner of a George Polk Award and a National
Magazine Award. Her 2022 book, Strangers to Ourselves, a finalist
for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a New York Times
bestseller. She lives in Brooklyn, New
York.
A subtle and penetrating investigation into how mental illness is
diagnosed ... Aviv is an instinctive storyteller... meticulous,
empathic, tirelessly inquisitive.
*Observer*
So attuned to subtlety and complexity... a book-length
demonstration of Aviv's extraordinary ability to hold space for the
"uncertainty, mysteries and doubt" of others.
*New York Times Book Review*
Profoundly intelligent ... superbly written portraits ... [A]
remarkable book.
*Guardian*
Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental
illness... a human chronicle that is intimate and unpredictable...
Instead of demonizing disorders of the mind, Aviv seeks to
understand their causes.
*The Times*
An incredibly researched, empathetic, and moving book.
*Lit Hub*
Combines the poise of Janet Malcolm and the confessional bravery of
Joan Didion ... Through half a dozen vivid case studies - one being
the story of her own hospitalization at age six - Aviv unravels
medical diagnoses and demonstrates how societal narratives around
illness take hold. The result is fascinating and empathetic.
*Vogue*
Aviv applies her signature conscientiousness and probing intellect
to every section of this eye-opening book ... A moving,
meticulously researched, elegantly constructed work of
nonfiction.
*Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*
In writing against the limits of psychiatric narratives, into the
space where language has failed, Aviv paradoxically finds language
for the most ineffable registers of human experience.
*Wall Street Journal*
Writing with uncanny empathy and integrity ... Strangers to
Ourselves is a work of landmark reporting that is truly
heartbreaking and astonishing.
*Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS: An Asian American
Reckoning*
A groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting exploration of the relationship
between diagnosis and identity. This is the kind of book that can
make your life flash before your eyes, glittering with new insights
and a sense of unguessed possibilities.
*Elif Batuman, author of EITHER/OR and THE IDIOT*
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