"The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are"-- In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes...

Recounting her experience in a psychiatric hospital as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed, a popular artist, in this stunning literary self-portrait, examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century as well as the insidious ways men impact their lives.