Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted By Suleika Jaouad

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing, 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 author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times“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.

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I checked out "Between Two Kingdoms" from my local library, anxious to read the story of another young adult survivor's journey. I am an avid reader of this particular genre due to my own survivor status from a different, less rigorous cancer, now approaching thirteen years. My own search for meaning is ongoing, and I read books like this hoping for a nugget or two of new insight.It's all here: the symptoms that creep into regular life that we dismiss as being a side effect of not enough sleep, too much alcohol or working too hard, the relentlessness of the disease, side effects from treatment, months in the hospital. The most valuable aspect of Suleika's story for the young adult cancer canon is no doubt the story of the caregiving she receives from her boyfriend, Will. Everyone in this story is in a bad spot. Suleika has to live as the person with the disease, the treatment, the side effects of that treatment, and death hanging over her head. Will has to live with the person experiencing all of that, as well as the disease, the treatment, and the side effects. She paints a seering, honest portrait of a relationship that eventually collapses in on itself. Everyone and no one is at fault, and that perception is no doubt a credit to her writing skills.Suleika eventually embarks on the Great American Road Trip to meet people who wrote to her after seeing her column in the New York Times. Of course, she encounters plenty of strangers, makes new friends, and visits old ones along the way. This is where the book lost me. The Great American Find Yourself Road Trip has been done so many times and I didn't find this one to be especially compelling or noteworthy. There's dangerous men. She gets pulled over, and even has own Strayed-esque moment when she doesn't know how to set up her tent.While reading this, I thought of Kairol Rosenthal's book about young adult cancer survivors, "Everything Changes," where she travels to specific locales to interview other young adult survivors. Herself a survivor, Rosenthal finds meaning and insight in her project but it is ultimately not about her.This book also reeks of privilege. The road trip is coated with the influencer-era gloss of fantasy and escapism. This is Cancer Survivor Fantasyland, essentially. Not because it is a glamorous, five-star trip, but because few of us can afford to walk out on our lives for100 days without major repercussions. I was traumatized and in physical pain the day I returned to work, and not at all ready to be there. But I had bills to pay and health insurance to keep. I had no choice. Suleika does not appear to need money. She is exceptionally well-insured and receives treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and Mt. Sinai in NYC. There's an apartment in NYC waiting for her to move into when she leaves the hospital.I am reminded that the stories that are deemed worthy enough to tell are often those of the well-off and well-connected.None of this makes her story less valid, of course. This is a worthy addition to the young adult cancer canon. It is only in the last 10-15 years that our stories have surfaced in popular media. The more that is out there, the better it is for those of us who have survived and those who will follow.

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