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001			on1256627900
003			OCoLC
005			20220826075033.0
008			211025s2022 nyu b 000 0 eng
010			_a 2021041264
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dBDX _dOCLCO _dOJ4 _dNFG
020			_a9780593236949 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0593236947 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1256627900
042			_apcc
092			_a155.93 _bM333
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMariana, Mike, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWhat doesn't kill us makes us : _bwho we become after tragedy and trauma / _cMike Mariana.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2208
264		1	_aNew York, New York : _bBallantine Books, _c[2022]
300			_axxxv, 358 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"A deep examination of what happens after life-altering events, from car accidents to incarceration, and how we forge new identities when our lives are cleaved irrevocably into a before and after "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger," the saying goes. But does it really? Tracing the lives of six people who have experienced catastrophic, life-changing events, journalist Mike Mariani explores the nuances of what happens after one's life is cleaved into a before and after. If what doesn't kill us doesn't necessarily make us stronger, he asks, what does it make us? When his own life was transformed by the diagnosis of a chronic illness, Mariani turned inward, changing his active existence into a more pensive one. In this ambitious work of reporting, he uses his own experience, as well as the lessons of medicine, literature, mythology, and religion, to tell the stories of people living what he terms "afterlives." Their experiences range from a paralyzing car crash to a personality-altering traumatic brain injury to an accidental homicide that resulted in a sentence of life imprisonment. Their "afterlives," Mariani argues, have supercharged their identities, forcing them to narrow and deepen their focus to find their sense of purpose-whether through academia or religion or helping others-in identities that have been struck by tragedy and then dramatically reinvented. Delving into lives we rarely see in such detail-lives filled with struggle, loss, perseverance, and triumph-Mariani brings us to the darkest aspects of human existence, only to show us just how much we are capable of becoming"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aLife change events. _946632
650		0	_aPsychic trauma. _910884
650		0	_aAdjustment (Psychology) _935137
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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