{"product_id":"youve-changed-benoit-denizet-lewis-9780062995438","title":"You've Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Benoit Denizet-Lewis comes a timely, provocative, and deeply moving exploration of personal transformation in a period of roiling uncertainty. \u003cem\u003eYou've Changed\u003c\/em\u003e investigates how we remake ourselves--and how identity, belief, and belonging shift in a world that won't stop doing the same.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in an age obsessed with reinvention. On Instagram, in recovery meetings, through name-change petitions, lifestyle pivots, deconversion blogs, and political conversion manifestos, we're surrounded by stories of radical personal change. But what does it really mean to shed an old skin--and why do some transformations inspire us while others raise our hackles?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLongtime \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis, known for his deeply reported and psychologically rich journalism, takes us on a freewheeling, wild-hearted journey into the mystery of human transformation. He introduces us to an unforgettable array of people in flux--including psychedelic reality benders, sexual and gender transitioners, ideological shapeshifters, seemingly reformed murderers, and an octogenarian grandmother trying to change her temperament (\"Better late than never!\" she says)--as well as those working to engineer change: psychologists, neuroscientists, name-change specialists, even his own father, a breath and meditation teacher who once wrote a newsletter about \"the art and science of transformation.\" Intertwined with those portraits of change is the author's own reckoning--by turns painful, poignant, and hilarious--with his misfires and epiphanies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou've Changed\u003c\/em\u003e is a book for anyone who's ever tried to become someone new, fix what felt broken, drag someone else into changing, or wondered whether real transformation is anything more than a myth we sell ourselves. Denizet-Lewis shows us that profound, positive change is possible--and offers an unexpected, sometimes counterintuitive set of approaches to help us get there. But this is no compass for the dogmatic or the quick-fix brigade. Change, he shows us, is slippery, scary, beautiful, often politically fraught--and best tackled with humility riding shotgun, holding the map upside down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benoit Denizet-Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 006299543X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062995438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Benoit Denizet-Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424780271871,"sku":"9780062995438","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a56820e-1c3c-4d41-940f-d6e5922b5ed2.jpg?v=1761532474","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/youve-changed-benoit-denizet-lewis-9780062995438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}