![]() ![]() 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. It showed a road-trip route across the United States, and it was dotted with people’s names - Katherine, Max, Nitasha, Lil’ GQ. ![]() 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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