You’ve Changed

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 <i> How To Be Yourself </i>

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 <i> We Survived the Night </i>

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 <i> Beautiful Boy </i>

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 <i> All the Way to the River </i>

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 <i> In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man </i>

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 <i> Secret City </i>

This fascinating and revelatory book should be read by anyone tempted by the promises of painless transformation

Larissa MacFarquhar, author of <i> Stranger Drowning </i>

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 <i> Real Change </i>

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 <i> American Mirror </i>

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 <i> Mississippi Sissy </i> and <i> I Left It on the Mountain </i>