About the Book
About the Book
Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
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"[Schulte's] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America's leisure time, and how do we get it back?"—Lev Grossman, Time
When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed. This book is the story of what she discovered --- and of how her search for answers became a journey toward a life of less stress and more leisure.
Schulte's findings are illuminating, puzzling, and, at times, maddening: Being overwhelmed is even affecting the size of our brains. But she also encounters signs of real progress --- evidence that what the ancient Greeks called "the good life" is attainable after all. Schulte talks to companies who are inventing a new kind of workplace; travels to countries where policies support office cultures that don't equate shorter hours with laziness (and where people actually get more done); meets couples who have figured out how to share responsibilities. Enlivened by personal anecdotes, humor and hope, OVERWHELMED is a book about modern life --- a revelation of the misguided beliefs and real stresses that have made leisure feel like a thing of the past, and of how we can find time for it in the present.
Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
- Publication Date: March 3, 2015
- Genres: Family, Marriage, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1250062381
- ISBN-13: 9781250062383