{"product_id":"9780465040513","title":"Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy","description":"\"All of us are creatures of a day,” wrote Marcus Aurelius, “rememberer and remembered alike.” In his long-awaited new collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles—as well as his own—to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful life, and how to reckon with its inevitable end. In these pages, we meet a nurse, angry and adrift in a morass of misery where she has lost a son to a world of drugs and crime, and yet who must comfort the more privileged through their own pain; a successful businessman who, in the wake of a suicide, despairs about the gaps and secrets that infect every relationship; a newly minted psychologist whose study of the human condition damages her treasured memories of a lost friend; and a man whose rejection of philosophy forces even Yalom himself into a crisis of confidence. Their names and stories will linger long after the book's last page is turned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike \u003ci\u003eLove's Executioner\u003c\/i\u003e, which established Yalom's preeminence as a storyteller illuminating the drama of existential therapy, \u003ci\u003eCreatures of a Day\u003c\/i\u003e is funny, earthy, and often shocking; it is a radically honest statement about the difficulties of human life, but also a celebration of some of the finest fruits—love, family, friendship—that life can bear. We are all creatures of a day. With Yalom as a guide, we can find in this book the means not just to make our own day bearable, but meaningful—and perhaps even joyful.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103480430832,"sku":"9780465040513","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780465040513_p0.jpg?v=1763705364","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780465040513","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}