![]() It was just interesting to hear how lost a person might. ![]() I closed the cover with a satisfied sigh and a renewed focus on living life to the fullest- just like Anne said. The second half of the book focuses on her life after she recovers and how she goes about reclaiming it. Along the way she describes not only the scenery, but her personal struggle to reenter the world of the living.īetween Two Kingdoms is both heartbreaking and inspiring, and ultimately a celebration of humanity. She visits a psychic in Detroit, survivalists in Montana, a death-row inmate in Texas. ![]() When Jaouad gets a tentative all-clear after nearly four years of chemotherapy and a life-saving bone marrow transplant, she takes off on a journey to meet and thank some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital. This memoir chronicles the author’s harrowing battle with leukemia, which-spoiler alert-she survives. But Between Two Kingdoms is also about the struggle to remain a participant in one’s own life. It showed a road-trip route across the United States, and it was dotted with people’s names - Katherine, Max, Nitasha, Lil’ GQ. This book will go down as one of my favorites of all time Suleika writes beautifully Her story is heart breaking and touching. Then she turned to a map that spanned the first couple pages of the book. ![]() It’s more than a medical memoir, she said. ![]() On the cover, a photo of the author and her terrier, Oscar, atop a goldenrod-colored Volkswagen bus. “A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” was the subtitle. During a visit to my local bookstore a couple weeks ago, a bookseller ushered me over to the nonfiction table and grabbed a copy of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad. ![]()
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