Heartbreak

A Personal and Scientific Journey

Heartbreak
Florence Williams
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1 Feb 2022 US
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9781324003489
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When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn' t expect is that she' ll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts so much and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong. Searching for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, Williams tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, undergoes electrical shocks in a laboratory while looking at pictures of her ex, and ventures to the wilderness in search of awe as an antidote to loneliness. For readers of Wild and Lab Girl, Heartbreak is a remarkable merging of science and self-discovery that will change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love.
Heartbreak by Florence Williams is a graceful account of losing a marriage and finding another way of being. With vulnerability and veracity, Williams seeks various modes of understanding the physicality of loss. Whoever has felt the blistering heat of a broken heart will thank Florence Williams for a clear moving river of discoveries--Terry Tempest Williams, author of Erosion Complex and thoughtfully researched, [Heartbreak] appealingly chronicles healing from emotional loss and offers fascinating scientific insights into the mechanics and impacts of romantic grief. A provocative and rewarding reading experience. -- "Kirkus Reviews" I tore through this book, unable to do anything else. Even sleep. Florence Williams has taken the most common form of psychic pain--heartbreak, her heartbreak--and transformed it into a meditative masterwork on what it means to live a good life, with biological and genetic markers and dozens of scientific studies to back up her claims. Awe: remember this word. You will feel it at the end of this book, and it could save your life. --Deborah Copaken, author of Ladyparts What a powerful book. Williams captures the heartache of divorce and the crooked road back to living. Colorful, imaginative and poignant--Heartbreak tells a gripping story of courage, sex, and adventure packed with all the newest hard science on romance and attachment. I' ve studied love for over 40 years and I was taking notes. It' s a magnificent, wise, and remarkable read!--Helen Fisher, author of The Anatomy of Love
Florence Williams is the author of Breasts, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The Nature Fix. A contributing editor at Outside magazine, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, and many other outlets. She lives in Washington, DC.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781324003489
Published: 1 Feb 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 239mm
Width: 160mm
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 491g
Pages: 304

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