A review by flijn
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

I'm in awe of this book. In exploring the lives and stories of people with mental illness, the author creates a radically humanizing perspective on the people she describes and through them, on others who suffer in similar ways and the people in their orbit. This humanization is the result of the sensitivity in the writing towards the shifting perspectives that are present in every narrative. They defy easy categirisation and judgment, and challenge you to reflect on the way the individual, the social environment, and the wider societal context interact. I love how the personal approach shows the complexity of modern life.
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