What a blazingly smart, funny, thoughtful, and moving book about the hopeand the occasional limitsof human transformation. In Youve 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 humanitys 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-Lewiss 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 Youve Changed with rapt interest and delight. But I also read the hell out of itI annotated it, underlined it, dog-eared it, and scribbled in its margins, because I couldnt 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 Youve 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
