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Between two kingdoms, a memoir of a life interrupted, Suleika Jaouad

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Between two kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad

a memoir of a life interrupted

An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and sufferingWhen Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward?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 had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal?to survive. And now that she?d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live. How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked?with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt?on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who?d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again

Between 2 kingdoms