Will and Attention by Meghan O’Gieblyn

In this luminous memoir of secret drinking, fragile recovery, and the deep pull of religion, award-winning essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn seeks to understand why it is so hard to sustain the difficult work of personal change.

“This is one of the best memoirs of the decade—a cool-water baptism, so bracing I felt transformed.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

“An elegant and philosophical memoir about addiction whose stakes are no less than what comprises one’s will to live.” —Melissa Febos, author of The Dry Season