Make It Scream, Make It Burn

★★★★★

This is Leslie Jamison’s fourth book – a collection of essays that explores a handful of “stories behind stories”. Some see her dipping into details she didn’t get the chance to pay heed to when covering a story as a journalist, others see her returning to trace the evolution of her own recovery from an eating disorder and alcoholism, and her journey to finding love and motherhood. Harvard-educated Jamison’s been dubbed one of the most defining voices of her generation, with The New York Times calling her the next Joan Didion.