"A guide to keeping the psyche intact when you're being spun on life's roulette wheel."―O

Is there an art to survival? Seeking answers to this intriguing question from a pantheon of master survivors, noted thinkers, and spiritual teachers, acclaimed memoirist Mark Matousek combines decades of personal experience with recent scientific breakthroughs―and heroic testimonies― to create a guidebook for navigating life's tricky terrain. How do we live with uncertainty―blossom through adversity while others fall apart, prevail in times of change and challenge? "Transformation is in our wiring," the author concludes by the end of this deeply personal quest.

About the Author

Mark Matousek is the author of two memoirs, The Boy He Left Behind and Sex Death Enlightenment. He is a contributing editor for O and Tricycle, and served as senior editor of Interview. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Details, Vogue, AARP magazine, the Utne Reader and other publications. H e lives in New York City.

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