You’ve Changed

What a blazingly smart, funny, thoughtful, and moving book about the hope—and the occasional limits—of human transformation. In You’ve Changed, Benoit Denizet-Lewis takes us right into the trembling heart of how tempting it is to try to change your life. I found this to be a deeply humane book, offering the reader both permission to evolve and compassion for the times it might not quite work the way we hoped – Elizabeth Gilbert, author of All the Way to the River
Denizet-Lewis pursues many offbeat examples of self-reinvention.. combining shrewd analysis and evocative reportage, this offers an entertaining and insightful take on humanity’s unappeasable drive to be different. Readers will be riveted * Publisher’s Weekly *
Fascinating… Benoit Denizet-Lewis takes us on a deeply considered yet hilarious ride that explores the promises, challenges, validity, and possibility of transformation in all its forms – Ellen Hendriksen, clinical psychologist and bestselling author of How To Be Yourself
Combines reportage, research, and memoir in a fascinating and beautifully written book that captivated me from the first page… endlessly thought provoking and inspiring. Read this book! – David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy
Denizet-Lewis’s wide-ranging study of change in an era when metamorphosis has become the head-spinning norm, is wonderfully reported, often hilarious, and unfailingly captivating – Julian Brave NoiseCat, author of We Survived the Night
Urgent and unifying… I read You’ve Changed with rapt interest and delight. But I also read the hell out of it—I annotated it, underlined it, dog-eared it, and scribbled in its margins, because I couldn’t help but find myself in it. You will too – Tom Junod, author of In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man
Eye-opening… Denizet-Lewis brings the curiosity and perception that make him one of our best nonfiction writers to the topic of personal reinvention. Reading this book will change you for the better – James Kirchick, New York Times bestselling author of Secret City
This fascinating and revelatory book should be read by anyone tempted by the promises of painless transformation – Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Stranger Drowning
Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a born storyteller who writes with great wisdom and wit. I loved his new book on change, a central obsession of our era that he thankfully rescues from easy-answer evangelists – Deborah Solomon, author of American Mirror
Benoit is a remarkable writer and a journalist of the first order, as You’ve Changed proves yet again. This is a deeply reported, keenly intelligent, beautifully written book – Kevin Sessums, author of Mississippi Sissy and I Left It on the Mountain
Denizet-Lewis digs into why and how people change, reminding us that it’s never too late to be the versions of ourselves we long to become – Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Change

Benoit Denizet-Lewis is an associate professor at Emerson College and a longtime contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He has written three previous books, including America Anonymous and the New York Times bestseller Travels With Casey.

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