8 Introspective Books That Will Lift You Up
Is acute stress response your coping mechanism of choice? It was for author
Barbara Bradley Hagerty, until she sought the advice of a few highly enlightened bedside companions.
By Barbara Bradley Hagerty
By Tererai Trent
288 pages; Atria/Enliven
At age 11, the Zimbabwean Trent was married off to a man who regularly beat her. By 18, she had four children, and at 22, despairing that she'd never leave her native village, she buried her precious goal of a higher education—she wrote down her wish, tucked the paper into a can, and covered it with dirt. But as her remarkable memoir/manifesto reveals, she went on to earn a PhD and launch a foundation to empower women. "We are a global matriarchal collective of...dreamers" who can "heal nations," she proclaims.
From the
January 2018 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
