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Growing out of her Emmy-winning New York Times column, it recounts her leukemia diagnosis at twenty-two and a subsequent cross-country road trip.
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Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Between Two Kingdoms
A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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Random House (Penguin Random House)
Between Two Kingdoms is a memoir by the writer Suleika Jaouad, published by Random House in February 2021.
- Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
Diagnosed with leukemia at twenty-two, just as adult life was beginning, Suleika Jaouad spent nearly four years as what she calls a citizen of the kingdom of the sick.
Between Two Kingdoms tells that story and then does something rarer: it follows her after the all-clear, on a 15,000-mile road trip to meet the strangers who wrote to her during treatment, searching for how to live once survival is no longer the whole task.
Jaouad, whose New York Times column chronicled her illness, writes with clarity about fear, love and the awkward reentry into an ordinary future. intendle recommends it for anyone navigating illness or its aftermath, and for readers who appreciate honesty over uplift. A New York Times bestseller named to numerous best-of-the-year lists, it later became the basis for the documentary American Symphony.
Luminous, unsentimental and wise about the work of getting well.
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Pages
352
Published
2021
Random House (Penguin Random House)
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Hardcover
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Language
English
Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
ISBN
978-0399588587
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