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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

di Suleika Jaouad

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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman??s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into ??normal? life??from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times
ONE 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. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.???Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review
 
??Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad??s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.???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.? She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. 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. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. 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. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. 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.
When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward??after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant??she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it??s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal??to survive. And now that she??d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live.
How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked??with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt??on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who??d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fi
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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the early copy. I absolutely loved this book. It is truly a deep dive into one's self and questions about one's life, it's meaning and where one ie headed. The author provides an honest and insight which translates into a thought-proving and evocative read. A book that will stay with you long after you turn the final page. Highly recommended. ( )
  BenM2023 | Nov 22, 2023 |
"Life is not controlled experiment. You can’t time-stamp when one thing turns into another, can’t quantify who impacts you in what way, can’t isolate which combination of factors alchemize into healing. There is no atlas charting that lonely, moonless stretch of highway between where you start and who you become."

A truly beautiful and moving account of one woman's battle with illness as well as her reevaluation of what "a life worth living" really means. ( )
  cbwalsh | Sep 13, 2023 |
In her early 20's Suleika Jaouad had everything going for her. A college grad, with a dream career on the horizon, a new love and a move to Paris: perfect except for some weird health issues that wouldn’t go away. Soon she was in and out of hospitals, her life in Paris with her boyfriend dissolving as her body crashed. She moved back home to the U.S. after being diagnosed with Leukemia. For years she battled this disease undergoing every treatment available. When she regained her health, another battle raged as she tried to figure out who she was and reclaim her altered life. An emotionally genuine graphic memoir about what cancer does to the patient, their family and other loved ones. ( )
  PamelaBarrett | Jul 28, 2023 |
Writes very well ( )
  SBG1962 | Jun 30, 2023 |
I listened to the audiobook read by the author. It's definitely one of the best books I have read this year - not only is it a heartbreaking story of a cancer survivor who does not shy away from the bad and the ugly and reveals us, the ignorant healthy, that surviving is not living and the remission period may be harder than the treatment itself; but it is also brilliantly written. The book feels like two books in one - the first part is about Suleika's journey in the Kingdom of the Ill; the second part is about her attempts to reenter the Kingdom of the Healthy. The second part is also about her road trip around the United States after just having passed the driver's license. She visits a lot of people who wrote to her while she was in the hospital, but also encounters complete strangers on the way. Her and Will's love story is heartbreaking; maybe the most heartbreaking part of the book. A book that makes you think a lot about life, death and everything in between. ( )
  dacejav | Apr 18, 2023 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman??s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into ??normal? life??from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times
ONE 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. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.???Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review
 
??Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad??s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.???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.? She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. 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. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. 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. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. 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.
When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward??after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant??she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it??s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal??to survive. And now that she??d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live.
How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked??with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt??on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who??d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fi

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