Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Turkle, Sherry

The Empathy Diaries is Sherry Turkle’s memoir of family, intellectual life and the search for connection. Her story moves from a childhood shaped by secrets in postwar Brooklyn to studies in the United States and France and a career at MIT.

Turkle connects personal experience with the questions about people and technology that inform her work. This is a life narrative, not a workbook for developing psychic empathy or a set of relationship exercises.