This is a stunning memoir, well-crafted and hard to put down. Finally, a hundred-day road trip visiting those who wrote her letters guided her “to live again in the aftermath.” Every chapter ends with a cliffhanger, adding a surprising level of suspense to a work where the broader outcome isn’t in question. Meaning is what’s left when everything else is stripped away.” As Jaouad’s cancer went into remission, she felt estranged as fellow cancer patient friends died and her longtime boyfriend left her. Louis’s kingdom, the argument runs, is the leading historical exemplar of the integralist visionstrong evidence that the modern distinction between sacred and secular rests on. I wasn’t a hypochondriac, after all, making up symptoms.” During her treatment, which was documented in a series of blog posts and videos for the Times, she was bolstered by heartfelt letters from readers, including one from a man in Ohio who wrote, “Meaning is not found in the material realm. Tara Westover, author of Educated A beautiful, elegant, and heartbreaking. Jaouad honestly describes how her illness affected her relationships with friends, family, and even her faithful boyfriend. This is a propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitudeand an intimate portrait of one woman’s sojourn in the wilderness between life and death. At 22, she wrote of the diagnosis, “I finally had an explanation for my itch, for my mouth sores, for my unraveling. Between Two Kingdoms will resonate with anyone who is living a different life than they planned to live. After becoming ill, she returned to her family home in Saratoga, N.Y., and was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Choose Expedited Shipping at checkout for delivery by Wednesday, May 24 Editorial Reviews. Symptoms first surfaced just before her graduation from Princeton, and she moved to Paris unaware of the cancer ravaging her bone marrow.

New York Times columnist Jaouad (Life, Interrupted) makes a phenomenal debut with this big-hearted account of her devastating five-year battle with cancer.

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