Axiomatic

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New Yorker Best Book of 2019 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 "Tumarkin presents a remarkable tour de force . . . These essays will linger in readers’ minds for years after."— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections—each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present—Tumarkin weaves toget