{"product_id":"sick-a-memoir-9780062428738","title":"Sick: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Best Book of the Year: \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eReal Simple, Entropy, Mental Floss, Bitch Media, The Paris Reivew, and LitHub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime Magazine's \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBest Memoirs of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe's \u003c\/em\u003e25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed's 33 \u003c\/em\u003eMost Exciting New Books\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGQ \u003c\/em\u003eBest Non Fiction Book of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBustle's\u003c\/em\u003e 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNylon's\u003c\/em\u003e 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eElectric Literature's\u003c\/em\u003e 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Porochista Khakpour's powerful memoir, \u003cem\u003e Sick\u003c\/em\u003e, reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core. Humane, searching, and unapologetic, \u003cem\u003e Sick\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003c\/strong\u003e.\" \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e -- \u003cstrong\u003eCheryl Strayed, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWild\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eSick \u003c\/em\u003eis Khakpour's grueling, emotional journey--as a woman, an Iranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems--in which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and her addiction to doctor prescribed benzodiazepines, that both aided and eroded her ever-deteriorating physical health. Divided by settings, Khakpour guides the reader through her illness by way of the locations that changed her course--New York, LA, Santa Fe, and a college town in Germany--as she meditates on the physiological and psychological impacts of uncertainty, and the eventual challenge of accepting the diagnosis she had searched for over the course of her adult life. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A story of survival, pain, and transformation, \u003cem\u003eSick \u003c\/em\u003ecandidly examines the colossal impact of illness on one woman's life by not just highlighting the failures of a broken medical system but by also boldly challenging our concept of illness narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKhakpour, Porochista:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePorochista Khakpour's debut novel \u003cem\u003eSons and Other Flammable Objects\u003c\/em\u003e was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editor's Choice, one of the \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune's\u003c\/em\u003e Fall's Best, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the \"First Fiction\" category. Her second novel \u003cem\u003eThe Last Illusion\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Elle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Slate\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e, among many others. Currently, she is guest faculty at VCFA and Stonecoast's MFA programs as well as Contributing Editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Evergreen Review.\u003c\/em\u003e Born in Tehran and raised in the Los Angeles area, she lives in New York City's Harlem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647419519250,"sku":"9780062428738","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5cfc91e3-2164-4a8c-91cb-2a8910440603.jpg?v=1734799563","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sick-a-memoir-9780062428738","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}