She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times.

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. It started with an itch first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone.

She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent.

The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter the real world. Jaouad s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us. Chanel Miller, TheNew York Times Book Review Beautifully crafted. Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman s journey from diagnosis to remissionto re-entry into normal life from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York TimesONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. Contributions for the charitable purposes of The Rumpus must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.Book Description Taschenbuch. The Rumpus is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. And join us by becoming a monthly or yearly Member.Įach of these subscription programs along with tax-deductible donations made to The Rumpus through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, helps keep u s going and brings us closer to sustainability. Subscribe to the Rumpus Book Clubs (poetry, prose, or both) and Letters in the Mail from authors.

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