Title:
Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted / Suleika Jaouad.
ISBN:
9780399588587
9780399588600
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
348 pages : map ; 25 cm
General Note:
Special features and enhancements may vary by copy.
Contents:
The itch -- Métro, boulot, dodo -- Eggshells -- Space traveling and gaining momentum -- Stateside -- Bifurcation -- Fallout -- Damaged goods -- Bubble girl -- Stop-time -- Stuck -- Clinical trial blues -- The hundred-day project -- Tango to transplant -- On opposite ends of a telescope -- Hope Lodge -- Chronology of freedom -- The mutt -- Dreaming in watercolor -- A motley crew -- Hourglass -- The edges of us -- Done -- The in-between place -- Rites of passage -- Reentry -- For those left behind -- The long foray -- Written on the skin -- The value of pain -- Salsa and the survivalists -- "Doing a Brooke" -- Homegoing.
Summary:
"An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering." -- Publisher.
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
on1233169464
Availability:
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