Rachel Zimmerman, an award-winning journalist, has written about health and medicine for more than two decades. She currently contributes stories on mental health to The Washington Post and previously worked as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and a health reporter for WBUR, Boston’s public radio station. Her essays and articles have been published in The New York Times; Vogue;The Cut; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Atlantic; Slate; The Huffington Post; and Brevity, among others.
Us, After is an exploration of rebuilding family follwoing a suicide. When a state trooper appeared at Zimmerman’s door to report that her husband, Seth Teller, had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could the man she’d married, a devoted father and robotics professor at MIT, have committed such a violentact? How would she explain this to her young daughters? And could shehave stopped him?
In this memoir, Zimmerman examines domestic devastation and resurgence: she confronts the unimaginable and, ultimately, discovers the good in what remains.
Ellen Barry covers mental health for The New York Times. She was previously the paper’s London-based chief international correspondent and the bureau chief in New Delhi and Moscow, and a reporter for the Boston Globe.
