DescriptionFight Flight Freeze is a collection of nonfiction essays that blend personal narrative with research and contemplation. At their core, these essays are driven by questions about how we shape and define our lives. Through a series of encounters—with a libertarian survivalist and conspiracy theorist, with the wealthy patrons at Saks Fifth Avenue, with competitive stone-skippers, with Mormon missionaries, with the decaying town of my mother's youth—Fight Flight Freeze seeks answers to the question, "How do we decide how to live?" While the essays are rarely overtly political, they reflect the questions and anxieties aroused by coming into adulthood in the decade since 9/11. I ask how we shape our individual lives in relation to those around us—both loved ones and strangers, communities and governments, and the generations that have come before.