Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036
16 Anmeldelser

3.9

Længde
7T 38M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Biografier

Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books 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 Huffington Post’s 60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 Bitch’s 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 The Rumpus’s What to Read When 2018 is Just Around the Corner Vol.1 Brooklyn’s 23 for 2018: A Literary Preview for the Year to Come The Millions Most Anticipated 2018 List Auto Straddle Most Anticipated 2018 Preview The Coil's Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018

In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author Porochista Khakpour's struggles with late-stage Lyme disease.

For as long as writer Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. All of her trips to the ER and her daily anguish, pain, and lethargy only ever resulted in one question: How could any one person be this sick? Several drug addictions, three major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease.

Sick is Khakpour's arduous, emotional journey—as a woman, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems—through the chronic illness that perpetually left her a victim of anxiety, living a life stymied by an unknown condition.

Divided by settings, Khakpour guides the reader through her illness by way of the locations that changed her course—New York, LA, New Mexico, and Germany—as she meditates on both the physical and psychological impacts of uncertainty, and the eventual challenge of accepting the diagnosis she had searched for over the course of her adult life. With candor and grace, she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness, her addiction to the benzodiazepines prescribed by her psychiatrists, and her ever-deteriorating physical health.

A story about survival, pain, and transformation, Sick is a candid, illuminating narrative of hope and uncertainty, boldly examining the deep impact of illness on one woman's life.

© 2018 Harper Perennial (Lydbog): 9780062880277

Release date

Lydbog: 10. juli 2018

Andre kan også lide...

  1. I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope Valerie Gilpeer
  2. Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
  3. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way Jesse Thistle
  4. The Fragments of my Father: A memoir of madness, love and being a carer Sam Mills
  5. The Reckonings: Essays Lacy M. Johnson
  6. Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession Alice Bolin
  7. Denial: A Memoir Jessica Stern
  8. The Body Papers Grace Talusan
  9. How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir Kate Mulgrew
  10. The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live Heather B. Armstrong
  11. Sunshine State: Essays Sarah Gerard
  12. Constellations: Reflections From Life Sinéad Gleeson
  13. Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss Stephanie Wittels Wachs
  14. Darling Days: A Memoir iO Tillett Wright
  15. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying Nina Riggs
  16. Breaking Badly: How I Worried Myself Sick Georgie Dent
  17. Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses Sarah Fay
  18. A Place for Everything Anna Wilson
  19. The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays Megan Stielstra
  20. The Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story Ebony Roberts
  21. Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville Akash Kapur
  22. Smile: The Story of a Face Sarah Ruhl
  23. Problems Jade Sharma
  24. The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Memoir Justine Cowan
  25. Starving in Search of Me: A Coming-of-Age Story of Overcoming an Eating Disorder and Finding Self-Acceptance Marissa LaRocca
  26. Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence Tanya Selvaratnam
  27. Black Water: Family, Legacy and Blood Memory: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory David A. Robertson
  28. The World I Fell Out Of Melanie Reid
  29. Get a Grip, Love Kate Lucey
  30. Christodora Tim Murphy
  31. Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People Frances Ryan
  32. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto Charles M. Blow
  33. Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism Elizabeth Tallent
  34. Pretend I'm Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp Barbara Feinman Todd
  35. Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar Kelly Oxford
  36. A Particular Kind of Black Man Tope Folarin
  37. Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood Dawn Turner
  38. This Really Isn't About You Jean Hannah Edelstein
  39. Mother Noise Cindy House
  40. Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People Ben Crump
  41. Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies Stephen McGann
  42. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Melissa V. Harris-Perry
  43. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis