It started with an itch-first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites.
The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. 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. Jaouad's insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us."- The Washington Post
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. (Feb.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. This is a stunning memoir, well-crafted and hard to put down. Finally, a hundred-day road trip visiting those who wrote her letters guided her “to live again in the aftermath.” Every chapter ends with a cliffhanger, adding a surprising level of suspense to a work where the broader outcome isn’t in question. Meaning is what’s left when everything else is stripped away.” As Jaouad’s cancer went into remission, she felt estranged as fellow cancer patient friends died and her longtime boyfriend left her. I wasn’t a hypochondriac, after all, making up symptoms.” During her treatment, which was documented in a series of blog posts and videos for the Times, she was bolstered by heartfelt letters from readers, including one from a man in Ohio who wrote, “Meaning is not found in the material realm. At 22, she wrote of the diagnosis, “I finally had an explanation for my itch, for my mouth sores, for my unraveling. After becoming ill, she returned to her family home in Saratoga, N.Y., and was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Symptoms first surfaced just before her graduation from Princeton, and she moved to Paris unaware of the cancer ravaging her bone marrow.
New York Times columnist Jaouad (Life, Interrupted) makes a phenomenal debut with this big-hearted account of her devastating five-year battle with cancer.
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