pHow do people turn out the way they do How do they arrive at themselves and attain an identity How are our identities affected by our birth order, our hair color, how tall or short we are, our intelligence, our occupation, our race, our religion, our nationality, the socio-economic level of our parents or our being raised in a single-parent family, where we are born and where we grow up, the language we learn, the way we use language, our fashion tastes, our gender, our education, our psychological makeup, chance experiences we have, the people we marry if we marry, and countless other factors There are numerous matters to consider when dealing with identity, which, as Nigel Denis, the author of 'Cards of Identity', reminds us, is the answer to everything. ppbrpp'Searching for a Self' takes a deep dive into the question of identity formation from various perspectives it is written in a reader-friendly accessible style and makes use of insightful quotations from seminal thinkers who ha