Sick: A Memoir Contributor(s): Khakpour, Porochista (Author) |
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ISBN: 006242873X ISBN-13: 9780062428738 Publisher: Harper Perennial
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Immune & Autoimmune - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017059572 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" L (0.40 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Health & Fitness |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2018 Publishers Weekly 03/26/2018 Library Journal 05/01/2018 pg. 81 Booklist 05/01/2018 pg. 55 Shelf Awareness 06/12/2018 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A Best Book of the Year: Real Simple, Entropy, Mental Floss, Bitch Media, The Paris Reivew, and LitHub. Time Magazine's Best Memoirs of 2018 - Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 - Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books - GQ Best Non Fiction Book of 2018 - Bustle's 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list - Nylon's 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 - Electric Literature's 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018 "Porochista Khakpour's powerful memoir, Sick, reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core. Humane, searching, and unapologetic, Sick is about the thin lines and vast distances between illness and wellness, healing and suffering, the body and the self. Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle toward health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me." -- Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild A powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery. For as long as author Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. Several drug addictions, some major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. |
Contributor Bio(s): Khakpour, Porochista: - Porochista Khakpour's debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor's Choice, one of the Chicago Tribune's Fall's Best, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the "First Fiction" category. Her second novel The Last Illusion was a 2014 "Best Book of the Year" according to NPR, Kirkus, Buzzfeed, Popmatters, Electric Literature, and many more. Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many sections of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Slate, Salon, and Bookforum, among many others. Currently, she is guest faculty at VCFA and Stonecoast's MFA programs as well as Contributing Editor at The Evergreen Review. Born in Tehran and raised in the Los Angeles area, she lives in New York City's Harlem. |
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