The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma

This intrepid memoir tracks a successful psychoanalysis of a veteran American journalist. The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma "invents its own genre," wrote Sherry Turkle. "The author suspects sexual abuse in her childhood and investigates with the toolkits of an historian and ethnographer." The result is a memoir that is what Eva Hoffman calls, "a true labor of memory, in which the story of the body is inseparable from the narrative of the self."

This memoir is the third of a non-fiction...