A review by sydfay03
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

unfortunately, i had a very different idea of this book when i picked it up which i think tainted the experience for me. i was expecting more of a sociological research series of essays but this is actually more autobiographical and a collection of personal essays. i really enjoyed the essays in the first half of this book but the back half i slogged through a bit. i just felt like we lost the plot and couldn’t find any connections to a bigger picture. this will teach me to pay closer attention to book descriptions or just forgo my expectations a bit more next time.