This One Wild and Precious Life: The Path Back to Connection in a Fractured World

Following her work First, We Make the Beast Beautiful on confronting anxiety, author and mental health advocate Sarah Wilson tackles a pertinent mental health issue that grows around the world: loneliness. Hardly a book that sees the issue as black-white, Wilson engages with the notion that loneliness isn’t only experienced by hermits, lone wolves, the schizoid, or the introverted. A person in a crowd, even of people they know, can find themselve feeling alone and disengaged from the connections around them. Juxtaposing this against the fact that loneliness is a growing health concern in the US, one with dire health implications, citing that 46% of Americans feel sometimes or always feel lonely.

Wilson suggests something contrary to what one might assume: to lean into what she calls “radical aloneness" as an antidote to growing consumerist culture of connection that she contends is a driving force in the alarming rates of disconnect.

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