"A fascinating study of an important global phenomenon."--Li Zhang, author of Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy "A timely book in a global age of anxiety, A Life of Worry takes us from Ho Chi Minh City's lively cafes to its burgeoning psychotherapy centers to offer an original phenomenological approach to anxiety as it is felt and enacted, often as a form of care for others, in Vietnam today."--Jocelyn Lim Chua, author of In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India "A fascinating account of the psychic effects of development in Vietnam, A Life of Worry compels readers to consider how economic growth can diminish collective well-being, how uncertainty has structured our lives, and how we might mobilize our collective anxiety toward new political agendas and practices of care."--Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, author of Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam