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Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted /

A few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, Jaouad received a diagnosis of leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for 'The New York Times.' After countless r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaouad, Suleika (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2021].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Jaouad, Suleika.
Women journalists > Biography.
Journalists > Biography.
Leukemia > Patients > United States > Biography.
Leukemia.
Patients.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients)
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The itch
  • Métro, boulot, dodo
  • Eggshells
  • Space traveling and gaining momentum
  • Stateside
  • Bifurcation
  • Fallout
  • Damaged goods
  • Bubble girl
  • Stop-time
  • Stuck
  • Clinical trial blues
  • The hundred-day project
  • Tango to transplant
  • On opposite ends of a telescope
  • Hope Lodge
  • Chronology of freedom
  • The mutt
  • Dreaming in watercolor
  • A motley crew
  • Hourglass
  • The edges of us
  • The last good night
  • Done
  • The in-between place
  • Rites of passage
  • Reentry
  • For those left behind
  • The long foray
  • Written on the skin
  • The value of pain
  • Salsa and the survivalists
  • "Doing a Brooke"
  • Homegoing
  • Epilogue.