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About Sick: A Memoir
Time Magazine's Best Memoirs of 2018Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New BooksGQ Best Non Fiction Book of 2018Bustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 listNylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018Electric Literature’s 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018Huffington Post’s 60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018Bitch’s 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018The Rumpus’s What to Read When 2018 is Just Around the CornerVol.1 Brooklyn’s 23 for 2018: A Literary Preview for the Year to ComeThe Millions Most Anticipated 2018 ListAuto Straddle Most Anticipated 2018 PreviewThe Coil's Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 A powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery.For as long as author Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. Several drug addictions, some major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. Sick is Khakpour's grueling, emotional journey—as a woman, an Iranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems—in which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and her addicti
