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Eva Holland is the author of the book \u201cNerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear.\u201d \n\nNerve is a hybrid of memoir and reported science. It\u2019s focused on Holland encountering and overcoming the things she was most fearful of, and the science behind it all.\n\nThe book came about after a few things happened back in 2015. First, Holland\u2019s mom died unexpectedly. That was one of Holland\u2019s greatest fears in life. And then, she was in a series of serious car crashes. \n\n\u201cI rolled my car into a ditch in April 2016, and I had been thinking about the idea of a book about fear actually that day while I was driving on the highway,\u201d Holland says. \u201cThat night in the hospital, I was like, yeah, okay, you\u2019ve got to do the book about this now because obviously the universe is sending you some kind of sign.\u201d\n\nThis is Holland\u2019s first book. Most of what she has done as a writer over the last decade are magazine pieces. She is a successful freelance writer, working as a correspondent for Outside magazine. She\u2019s also written for Esquire, Wired, Bloomberg, Pacific Standard, AFAR, Smithsonian, and National Geographic News. \n\nThis is Holland\u2019s second visit to Gangrey: The Podcast. She was on the show back in March 2014. \n\nNerve goes on sale on April 14.