![]() ![]() Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. It started with an itch-first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. ![]() ![]() 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. Jaouad’s journey back to “normal” is a stark reminder that the post-cancer transition can be just as hard as the throes of chemotherapy. Reading it, you learn how modern medicine does a great job keeping you alive but fails to look at the entire aspect of a person, both the mental and the physical. Jaouad honestly describes how her illness affected her relationships with friends, family, and even her faithful boyfriend. Jaouad’s memoir is a startling first-hand account showcasing how cancer can eat into more than just our bodies. So she embarked on a road trip across the country to find herself in this bestselling nonfiction book. Yet, once she was cured, she felt even more lost than ever. Jaouad spent the next four years in the hospital battling cancer and writing about it for The New York Times. But an itch turned to a diagnosis of leukemia with a low chance of survival. After graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was excited to enter “the real world” with a job in Paris and an amazing new boyfriend. ![]()
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