{"product_id":"sick-a-memoir-2","title":"Sick: A Memoir","description":"A Best Book of the Year: Real Simple, Entropy, Mental Floss,\nBitch Media, The Paris Reivew, and LitHub.\nTime Magazine's Best Memoirs of 2018\n• Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 • Buzzfeed's\n33 Most Exciting New Books • GQ\nBest Non Fiction Book of 2018 • Bustle’s\n28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list • Nylon’s\n50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 • Electric Literature’s 46 Books to\nRead By Women of Color in 2018\n“Porochista\nKhakpour’s powerful memoir, Sick, reads like a mystery and a reckoning\nwith a love song at its core. Humane, searching, and unapologetic, Sick\nis about the thin lines and vast distances between illness and wellness,\nhealing and suffering, the body and the self. Khakpour takes us all the way in\non her struggle toward health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved,\ninformed, and astonished me.” — Cheryl\nStrayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild\nA powerful, beautifully rendered\nmemoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full\nrecovery.\n\n\n\nFor as long\nas author Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that\ntime, she didn't know why. Several drug addictions, some major\nhospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis:\nlate-stage Lyme disease.\n\nSick is Khakpour's grueling, emotional journey—as a woman, an\nIranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health\nproblems—in which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and\nher addiction to doctor prescribed benzodiazepines, that both aided and eroded\nher ever-deteriorating physical health. Divided by settings, Khakpour guides\nthe reader through her illness by way of the locations that changed her\ncourse—New York, LA, Santa Fe, and a college town in Germany—as she meditates\non the physiological and psychological impacts of uncertainty, and the eventual\nchallenge of accepting the diagnosis she had searched for over the course of\nher adult life.\n\nA story of survival, pain, and transformation, Sick candidly\nexamines the colossal impact of illness on one woman's life by not just\nhighlighting the failures of a broken medical system but by also boldly\nchallenging our concept of illness narratives.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 006242873X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.006242873X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Khakpour, Porochista\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46741191426225,"sku":"RDV.006242873X.G","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/006242873X-0_7531dc9d-8e1e-45f2-bd61-1bfa87635db8.jpg?v=1775068452","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/sick-a-memoir-2","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}