Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books Bustles 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list Nylons 50 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2018 Electric Literatures 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018 Huffington Posts 60 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2018 Bitchs 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 The Rumpuss What to Read When 2018 is Just Around the Corner Vol.1 Brooklyns 23 for 2018: A Literary Preview for the Year to Come The Millions Most Anticipated 2018 List Auto Straddle Most Anticipated 2018 Preview The Coil's Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 A powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery. For as long as author Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. Several drug addictions, some major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. Sick is Khakpour's grueling, emotional journeyas a woman, an Iranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problemsin which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and her addiction to doctor prescribed benzodiazepines, that both aided and eroded her ever-deteriorating physical health. Divided by settings, Khakpour guides the reader through her illness by way of the locations that changed her courseNew York, LA, Santa Fe, and a college town in Germanyas she meditates on the physiological and psychological impacts of uncertainty, and the eventual challenge of accepting the diagnosis she had searched for over the course of her adult life. A story of survival, pain, and transformation, Sick candidly examines the colossal impact of illness on one woman's life by not just highlighting the failures of a broken medical system but by also boldly challenging our concept of illness narratives.
- | Author: Porochista Khakpour
- | Publisher: Harper Perennial
- | Publication Date: Jun 05, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 006242873X
- | ISBN-13: 9780062428738