![]() ![]() 'Inspirational' doesn't really cut it when you're talking about Suleika Jaouad. Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart, Abandon Me, & GirlhoodĬhanging the conversation about what it mans to thrive in the wake of illness and life's unexpected interruptions. ![]() TARA WESTOVER, author of EDUCATEDĪ stunning debut by a powerful new voice and required reading for every kind of survivor. Will resonate with anyone who is living a different life than the one they had planned. Drawing on Suleika's TED Talk, now with 4 million views, it illuminates universal questions about how we live, mourn, heal, grow up and begin again. When things don't go to plan, this is the book to reach for. ![]() We all face moments that bring us to our knees: heartbreak, trauma, illness. ![]() And so she set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her about their experiences of life, death, healing and recovery in response to her Emmy-Award winning New York Times column, 'Life Interrupted'. At twenty-seven, and celebrating her first year of remission, Suleika realized that, having survived, she had no idea how to live. For five years her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. An Emmy-award winning writer's moving and inspirational memoir exploring what we can learn about life from a brush with death.Īt just twenty-two, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukemia and given a 35 per cent chance of survival. ![]()
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