Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life

"Stern's frank, funny memoir about living with anxiety . . . will have chronic worrywarts laugh-crying with recognition." -O, The Oprah Magazine

The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern-how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to? Deep down, she knows that there's something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends don't have to cope with.

Growing up in...