What changes the game is when Soriano visualizes a new framework, a system of rivers, to conceptualize her agony. “Like waterways within ecosystems, our nervous systems work in close ...

Jen Soriano, Amistad, 320 pp., $29.99 Soriano will discuss their book with writer Kristen Millares Young at 7 p.m. on Aug. 23 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave., Seattle.

Do you feel anxious about your future? Do you consider yourself a nervous person? These feelings may be in part due to your ancestors. Jen Soriano, author of "Nervous: Essays on Heritage and ...