The Gift

Readers who finished Edith Eger's memoir The Choice often wrote to her with the same request: a practical book that would help them face their own history and ease their pain. The Gift answers that request. It builds on the ideas in her first book and offers a workbook-style approach that encourages readers to examine the thinking and habits that hold them tied to the past.

Eger, a psychologist who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp as a teenager, writes gently and without pressure. Her guidance is meant for anyone carrying old wounds, whether they came from war, abuse, loss, or ordinary hardship, and she frames change as something a reader can work toward at their own pace.

The result is a book that moves from personal reflection to concrete exercises, asking readers to notice what they tell themselves and how they respond, and to test whether those patterns still serve them.