The Story of Your Life

Becoming the Author of Your Experience

By Mandy Aftel
Simon & Schuster, $22

ISBN 06848155575


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Review by George Cowmeadow Bauman

Finding ourselves in the writing process is exactly what The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience by Mandy Aftel is about.

Aftel, 20 years a practicing psychotherapist, has written a book about writing whose goal is increased self-understanding through narrative therapy, a way to see that you and the people you love and hate are complex characters rather than one-dimensional heroes and villains, a way to craft subtle nuances of possibility and change rather than awaiting inevitable tragedy or the happy ending that can never be. It offers a way to stop letting others write the story of your life. "Regardless of our writing talent, in our daily lives we are all ad hoc novelists."


George Cowmeadow Bauman has been joyfully ruined by reading. He may be reached at booknman@aol.com.


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