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In Sick, Khakpour, a novelist and academic, chronicles her journey. It is a story of extreme illness and her fight for a diagnosis; of drugs, prescribed and recreational; of being female and a woman of colour; of feeling like an outsider. It amounts to a fierce work of feminism and an indictment of the healthcare system in America. It is also a haunting and sensational achievement . . . Sick is an intelligent tale of remarkable survival - as soon as you have finished you will want to start again * * Sunday Times * * Reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core . . . Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle towards health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me -- CHERYL STRAYED Draws attention to the ways in which women are expected to tell stories of sickness * * The New Yorker * * A gripping account of illness . . . This intimate account of suffering has the narrative propulsion of a thriller * * Financial Times * * Arresting . . . Sick upends all the tropes of the illness memoir . . . Khakpour's prose is beautiful, at once silky and scorching, like the curls of smoke rising from a fire that's just starting * * Slate * * Khakpour is a citizen of the world but a foreigner in her own Lyme-struck body. Her searing memoir about trying to make peace with a chronic illness redefines both dislocation and belonging * * Oprah Magazine * * The constant change in geography, in lovers, and in health are immensely pleasurable to read on every page, despite the author's uncertain future through it all. The very worst moments . . . are gravid with her joy at being able to write it. In the end, it's this joy of writing, however grim the content, that is really the subject of Sick. I love this book -- Ben Shields * * The Paris Review * * In this chilling memoir, the Iranian-born writer details her struggle with late-stage Lyme disease, drug addiction and mental illness . . . Sick doesn't make for an easy read, but it's definitely worth delving into this beautifully complicated memoir about living life with Lyme * * ELLE * * Written with bravery and honesty, Sick is an account of chronic illness, drug addictions, pain both physical and emotional, and the toll of misdiagnosis -- BuzzFeed This book gives a voice - a fierce, booming, brutally honest voice - to the millions of people silently suffering with invisible illnesses of their own . . . Thank you, thank you, thank you, Porochista for giving so much of yourself in this miraculous memoir. The world is a better place with your book in it -- SUSANNAH CAHALAN, author of BRAIN ON FIRE

Reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core . . . Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle towards health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me -- CHERYL STRAYED Draws attention to the ways in which women are expected to tell stories of sickness * * The New Yorker * * Arresting . . . Sick upends all the tropes of the illness memoir * * Slate * * Khakpour is a citizen of the world but a foreigner in her own Lyme-struck body. Her searing memoir about trying to make peace with a chronic illness redefines both dislocation and belonging * * Oprah Magazine * * Written with bravery and honesty, Sick is an account of chronic illness, drug addictions, pain both physical and emotional, and the toll of misdiagnosis -- BuzzFeed This book gives a voice - a fierce, booming, brutally honest voice - to the millions of people silently suffering with invisible illnesses of their own . . . Thank you, thank you, thank you, Porochista for giving so much of yourself in this miraculous memoir. The world is a better place with your book in it -- SUSANNAH CAHALAN, author of BRAIN ON FIRE Absolutely essential . . . Beautifully written, thought-provoking and illuminating * * Nylon * * Vibrant, humming, strong, tall, striding . . . Survival can be an act of the imagination: it is the courage to insist on seeing yourself decades in the future, climbing a mountain, squinting into the sun, sitting down at the desk to write what happened -- PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, author of PRIESTDADDY In this unrelenting memoir, Khakpour examines the brutality the world delivers upon our bodies while offering glimpses of hope amid life's uncertainties * * Esquire * * By sharing her body story, Porochista Khakpour gives the reader a profoundly generous gift: an unflinching narrative of the deep desire to live. Sick is a triumph of the imagination as she holds her heart out to you -- LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, author of THE BOOK OF JOAN

Reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core . . . Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle towards health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me -- CHERYL STRAYED Draws attention to the ways in which women are expected to tell stories of sickness * * The New Yorker * * Arresting . . . Sick upends all the tropes of the illness memoir . . . Khakpour's prose is beautiful, at once silky and scorching, like the curls of smoke rising from a fire that's just starting * * Slate * * Khakpour is a citizen of the world but a foreigner in her own Lyme-struck body. Her searing memoir about trying to make peace with a chronic illness redefines both dislocation and belonging * * Oprah Magazine * * Written with bravery and honesty, Sick is an account of chronic illness, drug addictions, pain both physical and emotional, and the toll of misdiagnosis -- BuzzFeed This book gives a voice - a fierce, booming, brutally honest voice - to the millions of people silently suffering with invisible illnesses of their own . . . Thank you, thank you, thank you, Porochista for giving so much of yourself in this miraculous memoir. The world is a better place with your book in it -- SUSANNAH CAHALAN, author of BRAIN ON FIRE Absolutely essential . . . Beautifully written, thought-provoking and illuminating * * Nylon * * Vibrant, humming, strong, tall, striding . . . Survival can be an act of the imagination: it is the courage to insist on seeing yourself decades in the future, climbing a mountain, squinting into the sun, sitting down at the desk to write what happened -- PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, author of PRIESTDADDY In this unrelenting memoir, Khakpour examines the brutality the world delivers upon our bodies while offering glimpses of hope amid life's uncertainties * * Esquire * * By sharing her body story, Porochista Khakpour gives the reader a profoundly generous gift: an unflinching narrative of the deep desire to live. Sick is a triumph of the imagination as she holds her heart out to you -- LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, author of THE BOOK OF JOAN

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Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novels Sons and Other Flammable Objects, which was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Last Illusion. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Slate and Salon, among others. She has been awarded a number of fellowships and is currently a guest member of the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Contributing Editor at the Evergreen Review. Born in Tehran and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in New York City's Harlem. Her memoir, Sick, chronicles her discovery of late-stage Lyme disease. @PKhakpour | porochistakhakpour.com

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