num_pages: 384
description: A beautiful book an instant classic of the genre. Dwight Garner New York Times  A New York Times Critics Top Book of 2021  A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice  Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus  Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in Autobiography &amp; Memoir  Winner of the New England Society Book Award in NonfictionMIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together  Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and workFor decades Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges. Turkle has spent a career composing an intimate ethnography of our digital world; now marked by insight humility and compassion we have her own.In this vivid and poignant narrative Turkle ties together her coming-of-age and her pathbreaking research on technology empathy and ethics. Growing up in postwar BrooklynTurkle searched for clues to her identity in a house filled with mysteries. She mastered the codes that governed her mother's secretive life. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father--and never to use his name her name. Before empathy became a way to find connection it was her strategy for survival.Turkle's intellect and curiosity brought her to worlds on the threshold of change. She learned friendship at a Harvard-Radcliffe on the cusp of coeducation during the antiwar movement she mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades and she followed her ambition while fighting for her place as a woman and a humanist at MIT. There Turkle found turbulent love and chronicled the wonders of the new computer culture even as she warned of its threat to our most essential human connections. The Empathy Diaries captures all this in rich detail--and offers a master class in finding meaning through a life's work.
language: English
title: The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
publisher: Penguin Press