The Empathy Exams: Essays

The Empathy Exams: Essays

by Leslie Jamison (Author)

Synopsis

The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act of describing.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 04 Jun 2015

ISBN 10: 1847088422
ISBN 13: 9781847088420
Book Overview: A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent

Author Bio
Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the NewYork Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, as well as a novel, The Gin Closet. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic,Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.