Half a Life - Hardcover

Elegant, painful, stunningly honest . . . huge [and] heartbreaking. The New York Times Book Review

Darin Strauss has spent a good part of his adult life reliving, regretting and reflecting on a single, split-second incident. Half a Life is a starkly honest account of that fateful moment and his life thereafter . . . penetrating, thought-provoking. The Washington Post

A book that inspires admiration, sentence by sentence . . . This is a memoir in its finest form, a fully imagined and bittersweet book that transcends a single misstep. Chicago Tribune
Painfully raw and beautifully written. Los Angeles Times

A remarkable, beyond-brave memoir. O: The Oprah Magazine

Lyrical and haunting. San Francisco Chronicle

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE PLAIN DEALER"

"Elegant, painful, stunningly honest . . . huge [and] heartbreaking."--The New York Times Book Review

"Darin Strauss has spent a good part of his adult life reliving, regretting and reflecting on a single, split-second incident. Half a Life is a starkly honest account of that fateful moment and his life thereafter . . . penetrating, thought-provoking."--The Washington Post

"A book that inspires admiration, sentence by sentence . . . This is a memoir in its finest form, a fully imagined and bittersweet book that transcends a single misstep."--Chicago Tribune

"Painfully raw and beautifully written."--Los Angeles Times

"A remarkable, beyond-brave memoir."--O: The Oprah Magazine

"Lyrical and haunting."--San Francisco Chronicle

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE PLAIN DEALER

Darin Strauss is the international bestselling author of Chang and Eng, More Than It Hurts You and The Real McCoy. His work has been translated into 14 languages and published in 17 countries.