Sick: A Memoir
3/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
A Best Book of the Year: Real Simple, Entropy, Mental Floss, Bitch Media, The Paris Review, and LitHub.
Time Magazine's Best Memoirs of 2018 • Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 • Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books • GQ Best Non Fiction Book of 2018 • Bustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list • Nylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 • Electric Literature’s 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018
“Porochista Khakpour’s powerful memoir, Sick, reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core. Humane, searching, and unapologetic, Sick 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.” — Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild
A powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery.
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 $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease.
Sick 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.
A story of survival, pain, and transformation, Sick 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.
Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour’s debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, one of the Chicago Tribune’s Fall’s Best, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the “First Fiction” category. Her second novel The Last Illusion 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 The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Slate, Salon, and Bookforum, among many others. Currently, she is guest faculty at VCFA and Stonecoast's MFA programs as well as Contributing Editor at The Evergreen Review. Born in Tehran and raised in the Los Angeles area, she lives in New York City’s Harlem.
Read more from Porochista Khakpour
The Blind Owl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sick: A Memoir Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSons and Other Flammable Objects: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Frontier Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Related to Sick
Related ebooks
I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Good Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lit: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Her: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Abandon Me: Memoirs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No One Tells You This: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Her Last Death: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Madness: A Bipolar Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Filthy Beasts: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrand: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Misfit's Manifesto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poor Your Soul: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In My Skin: A Memoir of Addiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life Inside Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homesick: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Finding Hope Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Autobiography of a Face Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Names of All the Flowers: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5At Home in the World: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Personal Memoirs For You
The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dry: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diary of a Young Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stash: My Life in Hiding Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Solutions and Other Problems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mediocre Monk: A Stumbling Search for Answers in a Forest Monastery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Choice: Embrace the Possible Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mommie Dearest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5People, Places, Things: My Human Landmarks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Sick
8 ratings0 reviews