Author: Christine Tate

Christie Tate is a Chicago-based writer and essayist. She has been published in The New York Times (Modern Love), The Rumpus, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Eastern Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Kiese Laymon selected her essay, Promised Lands, as the winner of the New Ohio Review's nonfiction contest, which was published Fall 2019.

The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers?her psychotherapy group?and in turn finds human connection, and herself.

A Reese's Book Club Pick AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

AMAZON EDITORS SELECTION FOR: Best Books of 2020

"Every page of this incredible memoir, Group by Christie Tate, had me thinking 'I wish I had read this book when I was 25. It would have helped me so much!'... We need each other through the good times and the bad. Please read this book with a group of friends you cherish." ?Reese Witherspoon

"This unrestrained memoir is a transporting experience and one of the most startlingly hopeful books I have ever read." ?Lisa Taddeo, New York Times bestselling author of Three Women

"Tate's hard-won willingness to become loving and to be loved ultimately shapes a story that has a lot of heart?one that goes straight to the messy center of what it means to interrogate our own limitations and deepest desires, wherever that journey may take us." ?Dani Shapiro, The New York Times

"Tate's candid path to healing is often hilarious and ultimately very touching." ?People

"Tate's writing positions the reader as her witness, watching and cheering as she works her way to psychological health... [Her] commitment to detail serves Group well. So does her plain determination to present herself not as a victorious therapy graduate ? she's a group 'lifer,' and proud of it ? but as an ordinary woman who has been lucky enough to beat some extraordinary demons. Group is consistently determined and grateful, with an appealing strand of self-deprecation and a deep affection for [Tate's groupmates]." ?NPR

Courses By Christine Tate:

	Title	Credits
3830519	Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life	12