By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone.It started with an itch-first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. 393 150, rue Ste-Cath.O - local #113Ī searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery.“A work of breathtaking creativity.”-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love“Elegant and heartbreaking.”-Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies“Mended parts I thought were forever disintegrated.”-Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy“A propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitude.”-Tara Westover, author of EducatedIn the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent.
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