Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in August 2010
“Rarely has a single book so intelligently illuminated a universal human experience. Melding science, literature, religion, memoir, and history, Melanie Thernstrom has created a masterpiece that reveals how we seek diverse dimensions of meaning to transcend suffering.”
– Jerome Groopman, M.D.,
Recanati Professor at Harvard Medical School and author of
The
Anatomy of Hope
and
How Doctors
Think
“A stellar example of literary nonfiction”
– The New York Times
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Melanie discussed pain and her book on NPR's Talk
of the Nation on Thursday, August 19
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