A memoir · forthcoming
Nobody on the Other Side
A Memoir of Coming Apart and Staying Whole
We are sold that we are not whole. We are. No one is telling us, so Mac will.
The book
This is a memoir about deconstruction: what it costs to let something you built your life on stop being true, and what is left standing when it does.
Not a self-help book with illustrative stories. A memoir with ideas underneath it. The kind of book that does not hand you a program, but shows you a person coming apart in the open and staying whole through it.
Deconstruction is not demolition. It is subtraction, down to a self that was there all along.
Nine crossings
Nine places a story broke, and the same discovery each time.
Each chapter follows one crossing. Each one ends in the same place: Mac finds out he was whole underneath the story that told him he was not.
For the reader
If you are tired of a groove you believe you cannot escape.
This book is proof of two things at once. You are not broken for being stuck. And you are not trapped either.
It is for anyone who has built a life on a story and felt that story start to give way, and wants to know what happens if they let it.
Where it sits
The honesty of a founder's memoir, the reach of a book of ideas.
Jerry Colonna's Reboot meets Meghan O'Gieblyn's God, Human, Animal, Machine.
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