RaveBook PostShe pays close attention to what we tell ourselves, what we do and don’t express about the circumstances of our lives, and how our emotional logic fares against the facts of forces beyond our control. She is alert to cultural narratives that run against or beneath what appears in the news. In this sense, Hochschild’s is a sociology about absence and its many costs ... A book that shows how gaps get filled by meaning of one kind or another.
Anna DeForest
RaveBook PostExacting ... This is a book about the denial and eventual cynicism of the unsaid, a book about need. It is also a book that feels very much like hospital time—to the family of the patient. I devoured it, then had to keep it down.
