When Leslie Jamison began publishing non-fiction books, she entertained a certain fantasy about what would happen when she allowed her work out into the world. “There was a part of me that imagined that I would, at some point, become a person who didn’t feel an intense amount of caring,” she says. “But one lesson I’m learning is that I will remain, probably until my end of days, not this indifferent (and ideal) version of myself but just the actual me.” Now, after several New York Times-bestselling essay collections, she’s put her very first memoir into the world — and putting this not-indifferent-at-all person to the test.
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