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

5.0

An incredibly stimulating collection of essays exploring the breadth and complexity of empathy and the depths of humanity. The first essay—the title essay—consumed my attention and I read with rapture all the way through to the end where Jamison closes with a bang in the final essay, Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain, about the representation of female pain. I want to re-read it immediately.