
Atlas draws on the emotional power of her patients’ stories and her own experiences to illuminate how inherited family trauma affects our lives.

Interview by Leslie LindsayDonald Antrim is the author of three novels, including Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World and two memoirs, The Afterlife and One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival. He has received awards from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He lives in…