Book

How we break : navigating the wear and tear of living

Call Number

  • 158 D2855 (CEN)

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Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

Physical Description

xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Summary

"Drawing on cutting-edge science and intimate personal stories, an essential and paradigm-shifting book for readers struggling with fatigue, burnout, stress, and trauma--and for all of us who sometimes feel like we have been pushed past our breaking point"--

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part one: Trembling. Many meetings
  • The body guard
  • The ambient hum of menace
  • Events
  • Arrhythmia
  • The rule book
  • Part two: Breaking. Rise and fall
  • To and fro
  • Reason's monsters ; Preoccupied
  • Are you sitting comfortably?
  • Exit strategies.

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