A New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the PEN West Prize for Literary Nonfiction
American Pain Society 2015 Kathleen Foley Journalist Award
“Rarely has a single book so intelligently illuminated a universal human experience. Melding science, literature, religion, memoir, and history, Melanie Thernstrom has created a masterpiece that reveals how we seek diverse dimensions of meaning to transcend suffering.”
– Jerome Groopman, M.D.,
Recanati Professor at Harvard Medical School and author of
The
Anatomy of Hope
and
How Doctors
Think
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Melanie recently discussed the history of pain on the podcast
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg.
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