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Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parade, Library Journal, Harper�s Bazaar and more �Profound and affecting.��Chloe Benjamin �Broken People leads us through the winds of time and memory to offer a riveting portrait of transformation. I am better for having read it.��Jamie Lee Curtis A groundbreaking, incandescent debut novel about coming to grips with the past and ourselves, for fans of Sally Rooney, Hanya Yanagihara and Garth Greenwell �He fixes everything that�s wrong with you in three days.� This is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform �open-soul surgery� on emotionally damaged people. For neurotic, depressed Sam, new to Los Angeles after his life in New York imploded, the possibility of total transformation is utterly tantalizing. He�s desperate for something to believe in, and the shaman�who promises ancient rituals, plant medicine and encounters with the divine�seems convincing, enough for Sam to sign up for a weekend under his care. But are the great spirits the shaman says he�s summoning real at all? Or are the ghosts in Sam�s memory more powerful than any magic? At turns tender and acid, funny and wise, Broken People is a journey into the nature of truth and fiction�a story of discovering hope amid cynicism, intimacy within chaos and peace in our own skin.