![]() ![]() Her cerebral, witty, multichambered essays tend to swing around to one topic in particular: what we mean when we say we feel someone else's pain. ![]() she calls to mind writers as disparate as Joan Didion and John Jeremiah Sullivan as she interrogates the palpitations of not just her own trippy heart but of all of ours. ![]() She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory-from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration-in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace. Published in the UK, Brazil, Germany, Holland, Italy, France, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Korea, and China.īeginning 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 can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? By confronting pain-real and imagined, her own and others’-Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. Finalist for the ABA Indies Choice Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Named a Top 10 Book of 2014 by Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Oprah, Slate, Salon, the L Magazine, and Time Out: New York. New York Times Bestseller, Notable Book of 2014, and Editors' Choice. ![]()
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