The odds are good that you know a narcissist—probably a lot of them. The odds are good that they are smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh and they make you think. The odds are also good that this spell doesn’t last.

Narcissists are everywhere. They’re found in politics and popular culture, in the office, at school—maybe even in your house. In The Narcissist Next Door: Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed—in Your World, Kluger, the chief science writer at Time magazine, frames the new research on narcissism and explains the complex, and oftentimes exasperating personality disorder.

He reveals to us how narcissism and narcissists affect our lives at work and at home, on the road and in the halls of government, what to do when we encounter it, and how to neutralize its effects.

Kluger is a coauthor of the bestseller Apollo 13 and the author of The Sibling Effect, Simplexity, Splendid Solution, and Moon Hunters.