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A REESEΓÇÖS BOOK CLUB PICK AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇ£Often hilarious and ultimately very touching.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöPeople ΓÇ£Have you ever read a book that made you want to hug the author?ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöReese Witherspoon ΓÇ£This unrestrained memoir is a transporting experience and one of the most startlingly hopeful books I have ever read.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöLisa Taddeo,New York Times bestselling author of Three Women The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guardedover-achievingself-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangersΓÇöher psychotherapy groupΓÇöand in turn finds human connectionand herself. Christie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she driving through Chicago fantasizing about her own death? Why was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her despite her achievements? Enter Dr. Rosena therapist who calmly assures her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groupshe can transform her life. All she has to do is show up and be honest. About everythingΓÇöher eating habitschildhoodsexual historyetc. Christie is skepticalinsisting that that she is defectivebeyond cure. But Dr. Rosen issues a nine-word prescription that will change everything: ΓÇ£You donΓÇÖt need a cure. You need a witness.ΓÇ¥ So begins her entry into the strangeterrifyingand ultimately life-changing world of group therapy. Christie is initially put off by Dr. RosenΓÇÖs outlandish directivesbut as her defenses break down and she comes to trust Dr. Rosen and to depend on the sessions and the prescribed nightly phone calls with various group membersshe begins to understand what it means to connect. Group is a deliciously addictive readand with Christie as our guideΓÇöskeptical of her own capacity for connection and intimacybut hopeful in spite of herselfΓÇöwe are given a front row seat to the daringexhilaratingpainfuland hilarious journey that is group therapyΓÇöan under-explored process that breaks you downand then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit.