Sick

<p><strong>A Best Book of the Year: </strong> <strong><em>Real Simple Entropy Mental Floss Bitch Media The Paris Reivew and LitHub</em></strong><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Time Magazine's </em></strong><strong>Best Memoirs of 2018</strong> - <strong><em>Boston Globe's </em>25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018</strong> - <strong><em>Buzzfeed's 33 </em>Most Exciting New Books</strong> - <strong><em>GQ </em>Best Non Fiction Book of 2018</strong> - <strong><em>Bustle's</em> 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list</strong> - <strong><em>Nylon's</em> 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018</strong> - <strong><em>Electric Literature's</em> 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018</strong> </p><p><strong>Porochista Khakpour's powerful memoir <em> Sick</em> reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core. Humane searching and unapologetic <em> Sick</em> 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</strong>. <strong> </strong> -- <strong>Cheryl Strayed </strong><em><strong>New York Times</strong></em><strong> bestselling author of </strong><em><strong>Wild</strong></em><strong><em></em></strong></p><p>A powerful beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness misdiagnosis addiction and the myth of full recovery.</p> <p>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 $100000 later she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. <br/> <br/> <em>Sick </em>is 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. <br/> <br/> A story of survival pain and transformation <em>Sick </em>candidly 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.</p>