{"product_id":"youve-changed-the-promise-and-price-of-self-transformation-9780062995438","title":"You've Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A blazingly smart, thoughtful, funny, and moving book about the endless hope--and the occasional limits--of human transformation.\" --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of \u003ci\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll the Way to the River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Benoit Denizet-Lewis comes a timely, provocative, and deeply moving exploration of personal transformation in a period of roiling uncertainty. \u003ci\u003eYou've Changed\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how we remake ourselves--and how identity, belief, and belonging shift in a world that won't stop doing the same.\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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou've Changed\u003c\/i\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\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.25w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062995438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenizet-Lewis, Benoit:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBenoit Denizet-Lewis\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor at Emerson College and a longtime contributing writer for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. He has written three previous books, including \u003cem\u003eAmerica Anonymous\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eTravels With Casey\u003c\/em\u003e. A New America Fellow and NEH Public Scholar, he divides his time between Boston and Prague. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Benoit Denizet-Lewis \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47897251938461,"sku":"9780062995438","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_0f4fe152-887e-4522-a451-227dc361981b.jpg?v=1778004605","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/youve-changed-the-promise-and-price-of-self-transformation-9780062995438","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}