Group: Six People in Search of a Life - Tapa dura

A page-turning account of six patients engaged in group therapy and their efforts to transform their lives. Granted unlimited access to the sessions and the patients' lives, journalist Paul Solotaroff has captured a real-life drama as it unfolds. Led by volatile charismatic psychotherapist Charles Lathon, the eclectic group includes a former model, an obnoxious Wall Street whizz kid with a coke habit, a middle-aged political activist in a messy divorce, a boozed-out rock musician, a wimpy accountant and an embezzling ex-Broadway producer. Combining the pace of a thriller with the lure of a mystery, GROUP is an absorbing and candid look at real people fighting some of life's harshest battles of whom not all survive to tell the tale.

Paul Solotaroff is a former editor at The Village Voice and a journalist whose work has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer prize. He has written for Esquire, GQ, Vogue and Rolling Stone and one of his stories has recently appeared in the anthology, The Best American Sportswriting of the Century.