
November '20 Pick
Group
Christie Tate
For fans of Three Women and Everything I Know About Love comes a refreshingly original memoir about self-discovery, loneliness and love. A guarded young lawyer reluctantly joins a psychotherapy group...
Group
For fans of Three Women and Everything I Know About Love comes a refreshingly original memoir about self-discovery, loneliness and love. A guarded young lawyer reluctantly joins a psychotherapy group where she has to share her innermost thoughts with six complete strangers. In turn she finds human connection, and herself. “What’s going to happen to me when I start group?” “All of your secrets are going to come out.” Christie Tate has just been named the top student in her law school class and seems to finally have got her eating disorder under control. So why is she driving through Chicago fantasising about her own death? Desperate, she joins Dr Rosen’s psychotherapy group, and through his unconventional methods, he challenges everything she thought she knew, about herself and others. In group, secrets are not allowed. This means telling a group of strangers everything – about her struggle with bulimia, her failed sex life, her overwhelming sense of loneliness and acute longing for a relationship. And as she keeps sharing her thoughts and feelings and listens to the others doing the same, her life slowly begins to change. This is a deliciously compelling read, and an intimate journey through the daring, exhilarating, painful, and hilarious journey that is group therapy – a process that breaks you down, and then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit.
From Our Book Lover-In-Chief
This book is a testament to the power of human connection.
Have you ever read a book that made you want to HUG the author? Every page of this incredible memoir, Group by Christie Tate, had me thinking “I wish I had read this book when I was 25. It would have helped me so much!” Christie’s story of being a young professional woman who is struggling with deep insecurity and loneliness made me remember so many times in my life where as wished I had a group of friends to carry me through the hard days. And that’s what Christie finds in her therapy group. This book is a testament to the power of human connection. We need each other through the good times and the bad. Please read this book with a group of friends you cherish. And if you don’t have a Group, join mine!


FROM THE AUTHOR
Christie Tate
Christie Tate is a Chicago-based writer and essayist. Group is her first book.
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