[Schulte s] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America s leisure time and how do we get it back? --Lev Grossman Time When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte a harried mother of two realized she was living a life of all work and no play she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed. This book is the story of what she discovered--and of how her search for answers became a journey toward a life of less stress and more leisure. Schulte s findings are illuminating puzzling and at times maddening: Being overwhelmed is even affecting the size of our brains. But she also encounters signs of real progress--evidence that what the ancient Greeks called the good life is attainable after all. Schulte talks to companies who are inventing a new kind of workplace; travels to countries where policies support office cultures that don t equate shorter hours with laziness (and where people actually get more done); meets couples who have figured out how to share responsibilities. Enlivened by personal anecdotes humor and hope Overwhelmed is a book about modern life--a revelation of the misguided beliefs and real stresses that have made leisure feel like a thing of the past and of how we can find time for it in the present.