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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100399588582
ISBN-139780399588587
eBay Product ID (ePID)22038264162
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Book TitleBetween Two Kingdoms : a Memoir of Alife Interrupted
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Diseases / Cancer, Death & Dying, Personal Growth / General, Personal Memoirs, Journalism, Medical
Publication Year2021
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Health & Fitness, Language Arts & Disciplines, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorSuleika Jaouad
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight20.6 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-289350
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Here is the key to Between Two Kingdoms --Jaouad's disarming honesty. There is no self-pity in this telling and few of the expected pieties . . . Jaouad is writing about a process, a back-and-forth. In the tension between health and sickness, past and present, a new balance must be forged." -- Los Angeles Times "Jaouad's book stands out not only because she has lived to parse the saga of her medical battle with the benefit of hindsight, but also because it encompasses the less familiar tale of what it's like to survive and have to figure out how to live again." -- NPR "I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. Her sensory snapshots remain in my mind long after reading . . . Not only can Jaouad tolerate the unbearable feelings, she can reshape them into poetry . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown." -- The New York Times Book Review "Beautifully crafted... affecting... a transformative read... Jaouad's insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us, not only readers who've faced a life-changing--and potentially life-ending--diagnosis . . . The timing of this memoir is just right." -- The Washington Post "When the life we had is snatched away, how do we find the conviction to live another? Between Two Kingdoms will resonate with anyone who is living a different life than they planned to live. This is a propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitude--and an intimate portrait of one woman's sojourn in the wilderness between life and death." --Tara Westover, author of Educated "A beautiful, elegant, and heartbreaking book that provides a glimpse into the kingdom of illness . . . Suleika Jaouad avoids sentimentality but manages to convey the depth of the emotional turmoil that illness can bring into our lives." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies "In a book bubbling with ambition and impeccable skill, it is what Suleika Jaouad does with courage and secondary characters that is simply once in a generation. Between Two Kingdoms mended parts I thought were forever disintegrated." --Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy "This is a deeply moving and passionate work of art, quite unlike anything I've ever read. I will remember these stories for years to come, because Suleika Jaouad has imprinted them on my heart." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love "Jaouad does a beautiful job of writing from this place of 'dual citizenship,' where she finds pain but also joy, kinship, and possibility." -- Library Journal , (starred review) "Memorable, lyrical, and ultimately hopeful: a book that speaks intently to anyone who suffers from illness and loss." -- Kirkus Reviews "Boldly candid and truly memorable." -- Booklist , (starred review) "This is a stunning memoir, well-crafted and hard to put down." -- Publishers Weekly , (starred review), "I want to describe Suleika Jaouad with words like 'courageous,' 'resilient,' 'vulnerable,' and 'inspiring'--but I understand that, for cancer survivors, these words can feel like empty clichés. The problem is, these words are true . Suleika Jaouad is courageous, resilient, vulnerable, and inspiring. And her memoir about her cancer journey is a work of breathtaking creativity and heart-stopping humanity. Jaouad's story goes where you never expect it to go--not only into the depths of her own pain and lost years, but into the spirits of countless strangers (sick and well) she meets along the highway of own her life and illuminates with rare generosity and grace. This is a deeply moving and passionate work of art, quite unlike anything I've ever read. I will remember these stories for years to come, because Suleika Jaouad has imprinted them on my heart." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love, "Here is the key to Between Two Kingdoms --Jaouad's disarming honesty. There is no self-pity in this telling and few of the expected pieties . . . Jaouad is writing about a process, a back-and-forth. In the tension between health and sickness, past and present, a new balance must be forged." -- Los Angeles Times "Jaouad's book stands out not only because she has lived to parse the saga of her medical battle with the benefit of hindsight, but also because it encompasses the less familiar tale of what it's like to survive and have to figure out how to live again." --NPR "I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. Her sensory snapshots remain in my mind long after reading . . . Not only can Jaouad tolerate the unbearable feelings, she can reshape them into poetry . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown." --Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review "Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad's insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us, not only readers who've faced a life-changing--and potentially life-ending--diagnosis. . . . The timing of this memoir is just right." -- The Washington Post "When the life we had is snatched away, how do we find the conviction to live another? Between Two Kingdoms will resonate with anyone who is living a different life than they planned to live. This is a propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitude--and an intimate portrait of one woman's sojourn in the wilderness between life and death." --Tara Westover, author of Educated "A beautiful, elegant, and heartbreaking book that provides a glimpse into the kingdom of illness . . . Suleika Jaouad avoids sentimentality but manages to convey the depth of the emotional turmoil that illness can bring into our lives." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies "In a book bubbling with ambition and impeccable skill, it is what Suleika Jaouad does with courage and secondary characters that is simply once in a generation. Between Two Kingdoms mended parts I thought were forever disintegrated." --Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy "This is a deeply moving and passionate work of art, quite unlike anything I've ever read. I will remember these stories for years to come, because Suleika Jaouad has imprinted them on my heart." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love "Jaouad does a beautiful job of writing from this place of 'dual citizenship,' where she finds pain but also joy, kinship, and possibility." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Memorable, lyrical, and ultimately hopeful: a book that speaks intently to anyone who suffers from illness and loss." -- Kirkus Reviews "Boldly candid and truly memorable." -- Booklist (starred review) "This is a stunning memoir, well-crafted and hard to put down." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Dewey Decimal616.99/4190092 B
SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into "normal" life--from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist "I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown."--Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review "Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad's insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us."-- The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter "the real world." She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch--first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times . When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward--after countless rounds 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., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into "normal" life--from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist "I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown."--Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review "Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad's insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us."-- The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter "the real world." She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch--first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times . When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward--after countless rounds 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., A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter "the real world." She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch--first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times . When 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.
LC Classification NumberRC643.J35 2021
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- 26. Mär. 2022
Between Two Kingdoms
Released in 2021 & NYT bestseller! This is a personal account of the author’s health struggles w Leukemia & the various people, her boyfriend/caregiver & fellow cadre of patients & well wishers she’s met on her journey. She beautifully expresses very hard topics, relationships w her friends & Fam, the pain she went through, & her isolation while receiving treatment. It’s thru her words can we imagine managing life on the edge of death. From a newly diagnosed Leukemia patient, I truly appreciated finding this book.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 14. Jul. 2021
A tough prognosis
Many people face a life-threatening diagnosis, as this author did. However, few are able to put their thoughts on paper as well as she has. I found myself practically living the experience along with her. Read this book; it will challenge you and in the process, perhaps make you a better person. Read it.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Mär. 2024
Your life will be enriched by reading "Between Two Kingdoms" by Suleika Jaouad.
This lovely book was so well written, I couldn't wait to get back to it between reads and finished it quickly. It is a story I will want to revisit and will tell my friends about. Suleika's story is sad (I found myself crying through much of it), but just as there were powerful life-lessons she gleaned from her illness, I feel that I learned from it, too. No matter what your life story is, there will be take-aways for you from this book. Suleika wrote with such compassion about the people she met and befriended through her illness, this book covers their stories, too. She quoted Katherine, a friend she met via correspondence as saying "That's all you can do in the face of these things. Love the people around you. Love the life you have. I can't think of a more powerful response to life's sorrows than loving." I think that is a good message for all of us to remember.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 09. Feb. 2024
Life changing
Everyone should read this book!!!!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 08. Apr. 2022
Inspiring story
An inspiring story of life's challenges.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 27. Jan. 2024
Keeper
Beautiful writing. Bought a copy to reread.again repeatedly.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 09. Mär. 2021
Excellent!
Great Read!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 10. Mai. 2024
Excellent… thank you!
Excellent… thank you!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 18. Mai. 2024
As expected
As expectedBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
