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A deep examination of what happens after life-altering events--from devastating car accidents to yearslong incarceration--and how we forge new identities when our lives are cleaved irrevocably."What doesn't kill us makes us stronger," the adage--adapted from Nietzsche's famous maxim--goes. But how much truth is there to that ubiquitous, inexhaustible saying? Tracing the lives of six people who have experienced profoundly life-changing events, journalist Mike Mariani explores the nuances and largely uncharted territory of what happens after one's life is severed into a before and after. If what doesn't kill us does not necessarily make us stronger, he asks, what does it make us?When his own life was transformed by the onset of a chronic illness, Mariani turned inward, changing his bustling, exuberant lifestyle into something more contemplative and deliberate. In this ambitious work of narrative reporting, he uses his own experience, as well as lessons from psychology, literature,

Author : Mike Mariani

Pages : 359 pages

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ISBN-10 : 0593236947

ISBN-13 : 9780593236949