![]() ![]() She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal-to survive. When Suleika finally walked out of the hospital-after three and a half years of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant-she was, according to the doctors, “cured.” But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends it’s where it begins. She would spend much of the next four years confined to a hospital bed, fighting for her life. By time she boarded a plane home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself was engulfed in flames. Then came a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. ![]() Then came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only seemed to deepen her fatigue. It started with an itch-first on her feet, then migrating up her legs-like a thousand mosquito bites. The “real world” she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. In the summer of 2010, Suleika Jaouad had just graduated from college, 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. ![]() 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 ![]()
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