Will and Attention

Meghan O’Gieblyn is a seeker, a wry skeptic, a spiritual explorer, and a beautiful writer. Will and Attention amounts to a brilliant portrait of a brilliant person: gentle, melancholy, bracing, and astute – Lorrie Moore

Will and Attention is a feat of uncommon honesty. O’Gieblyn’s intellectual rigor and spiritual bravery land her in the firmament of the finest thinkers to take up these two vast, essential, and entwined subjects. A bracing, beautiful book that reads like a fortifying talk with an intimate companion. Mesmerizing, invigorating, and profound

– Claire Vaye Watkins, author of I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness
Staggering. This is the single best book about the relationship between faith and addiction I have ever read, which, by definition, makes it the single best book about addiction I have ever read. A prayer to recovery in the deepest sense of the word: the reclamation of something fundamental. It turns out the God-shaped hole was book-shaped all along – Keiran Goddard, author of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Meghan O’Gieblyn explores the recursive nature of struggle, the untidiness of growth, and the humility of being human. Will and Attention is a profound act of personal, spiritual, and philosophical inquiry. I’ll be thinking about this book for a long time – Chloe Benjamin, author of Under Story
An elegant and philosophical memoir about addiction whose stakes are no less than what comprises one’s will to live, what it means to be good, and the worth of devotion. I savored equally O’Gieblyn’s sentences and the turns of her thought-at once precise as the cut of a razor and as pleasurably discursive as Montaigne – Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Girlhood and The Dry Season