Sick A Memoir
- 2 Aug 2018
- 9781786896049
- £10.99
- 272 pp
- 129×198mm
- 2 Aug 2018
- 9781786896056
- £8.79
- 272 pp
In a few words
A devastating memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction and the myth of full recovery – already an online phenomenon in the USA in summer 2018
In a few words
A devastating memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction and the myth of full recovery – already an online phenomenon in the USA in summer 2018
In Sick, Khakpour, a novelist and academic, chronicles her journey. It is a story of extreme illness and her fight for a diagnosis; of drugs, prescribed and recreational; of being female and a woman of colour; of feeling like an outsider. It amounts to a fierce work of feminism and an indictment of the healthcare system in America. It is also a haunting and sensational achievement . . . Sick is an intelligent tale of remarkable survival — as soon as you have finished you will want to start again
Reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core . . . Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle towards health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me
Cheryl Strayed
In Sick, Khakpour, a novelist and academic, chronicles her journey. It is a story of extreme illness and her fight for a diagnosis; of drugs, prescribed and recreational; of being female and a woman of colour; of feeling like an outsider. It amounts to a fierce work of feminism and an indictment of the healthcare system in America. It is also a haunting and sensational achievement . . . Sick is an intelligent tale of remarkable survival — as soon as you have finished you will want to start again
Reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core . . . Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle towards health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me
Cheryl Strayed
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For as long as Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn’t know why. A story of survival, pain and transformation, Sick examines the colossal impact of illness on one woman’s life. It is a journey that took Porochista Khakpour from Tehran, the town of her birth, through the major cities of America, the country she came to call home, before she eventually found a diagnosis of late-stage Lyme disease.
Sick explores what it means to feel at home in one’s body, and also one’s country. And what it means not to.
More about
the book
BuzzFeed’s 33 Most Exciting New Books
Bustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Non-fiction Books of 2018
Nylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018
Huffington Post’s 60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018
Electric Literature’s 46 Books to Read By Women of Colour in 2018
For as long as Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn’t know why. A story of survival, pain and transformation, Sick examines the colossal impact of illness on one woman’s life. It is a journey that took Porochista Khakpour from Tehran, the town of her birth, through the major cities of America, the country she came to call home, before she eventually found a diagnosis of late-stage Lyme disease.
Sick explores what it means to feel at home in one’s body, and also one’s country. And what it means not to.
Draws attention to the ways in which women are expected to tell stories of sickness
A gripping account of illness . . . This intimate account of suffering has the narrative propulsion of a thriller
Arresting . . . Sick upends all the tropes of the illness memoir . . . Khakpour’s prose is beautiful, at once silky and scorching, like the curls of smoke rising from a fire that’s just starting
Khakpour is a citizen of the world but a foreigner in her own “Lyme-struck” body. Her searing memoir about trying to make peace with a chronic illness redefines both dislocation and belonging
Draws attention to the ways in which women are expected to tell stories of sickness
A gripping account of illness . . . This intimate account of suffering has the narrative propulsion of a thriller
Arresting . . . Sick upends all the tropes of the illness memoir . . . Khakpour’s prose is beautiful, at once silky and scorching, like the curls of smoke rising from a fire that’s just starting
Khakpour is a citizen of the world but a foreigner in her own “Lyme-struck” body. Her searing memoir about trying to make peace with a chronic illness redefines both dislocation and belonging
