WSJ’s Top Book Recommendations-Cary Regional

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1. Strangers to ourselves: unsettled minds and the stories that make us

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Author:
Aviv, Rachel
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4 stars
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Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
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"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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother vying for her children's forgiveness after recovering...