STRANGERS TO OURSELVES by Rachel Aviv continues to be lauded with rave reviews. Hephzibah Anderson for the Guardian US writes: “Aviv is an instinctive storyteller and her book’s episodic, immersive format is underpinned by in-depth reporting as she tracks down those closest to her subjects...Her own language is meticulous, empathic, tirelessly inquisitive...[H]er approach to mental illness [is infused] with such humility and kinship and her complex, illuminating book is all the stronger for it.” The book was also praised by the Guardian UK, where reviewer David Shariatmadari writes: “A profoundly intelligent attempt to understand the conflicting stories we tell about psychological distress…[D]espite the rival camps and competing explanations, the riddle of mental illness is not so hard – its causes are ‘an interplay between biological, genetic, psychological, and environmental factors.’ But it can be unfathomably complex as it plays out in people’s lives. Ultimately, as Aviv’s remarkable book shows, only their own stories can make sense of it.” Lastly, the book received a positive review from Slate, where reviewer Mia Amstrong-López raves “[STRANGERS TO OURSELVES] is a beautifully written, profoundly researched narrative, and each time I try to describe it to someone, I stumble over words until I finally land on ‘You just have to read it’…[STRANGERS TO OURSELVES] is about identity: the way it is tangled up in our mental health systems and the cultural narratives about those systems—shifted and shaped and transformed by them… Worn-out, generalized narratives of mental illness often make our own stories feel static. Perhaps it is only through sharing them that we realize they rarely are.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 13, 2022.