![]() ![]() “I started to worry that my deep weariness might be something else. She was drinking up to eight espressos a day. Itch (first symptom) had lessened since she moved to Paris, but the exhaustion was all consuming. “If Manhattan is where people move to jump-start careers, Paris is where they go to live out the fantasy of a different life.” Jaouad’s a brilliant writer and her story will steal your heart.Ĭheck out my notes below or Amazon for details and reviews. The book is full of thought-provoking sections on mortality, meaning, recovery, and how to reconcile our past with our present in order to find a path forward. ![]() ![]() Along the way she visited strangers who had written to her while she was sick in order to uncover her way back to herself. So she borrowed a friend’s car, subleased her apartment, and set off on a 15,000-mile road trip over 100 days. But she was then faced with the question of how she could possibly begin living again. ![]() A beautiful and inspiring memoir about Jaouad’s diagnosis with a rare form of leukemia in her early 20s and her struggle to survive. ![]()
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