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Author:
John Hendrickson
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
January 17, 2023
In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden's decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching readers around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson's life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain. He soon learned he wasn't alone with his feelings: strangers who stutter began sending him their own personal stories, something that continues to this day. Now, in this reported memoir, Hendrickson sets out to answer lingering questions about himself and his condition that he was often too afraid to ask.
What The Reviewers Say
Seamlessly recounted, threading together science and emotion, ideas and experience.
The kind of memoir that educates, endears, impacts and devastates, often simultaneously.
Hendrickson poignantly chronicles his efforts to navigate adolescence and high school with a fear of speaking.
Powerful.
