What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma

"A bold and intricate exploration of catastrophe as not just a transformative experience or a test case for resilience, but something that completely reinvents us--a reincarnation."--Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road "A masterpiece--a book that truly captures what it means to be changed by tragedy, and a necessary salve for our troubled times."--Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger," the adage--adapted from Nietzsche's famous maxim--goes. But how much truth is there to that ubiquitous, inexhaustible saying? Tracing the lives of six people who have experienced profoundly life-changing events, journalist Mike Mariani explores the nuances and largely uncharted territory of what happens after one's life is severed into a before and after. If what doesn't kill us does not necessarily make us stronger, he asks, what does it make us? When his own life was transfor