Sick : a memoir / Porochista Khakpour.

  • Khakpour, Porochista
Date:
2018
  • Books

About this work

Description

For as long as Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. A story of survival, pain and transformation, Sick examines the colossal impact of illness on one woman's life. It is a journey that took Porochista Khakpour from Tehran, the town of her birth, through the major cities of America, the country she came to call home, before she eventually found a diagnosis of late-stage Lyme disease. Sick explores what it means to feel at home in one's body, and also one's country. And what it means not to.

Publication/Creation

Edinburgh : Canongate Books Ltd, 2018.

Physical description

255 pages ; 20 cm

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FOA/KHA
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1786896044
  • 9781786896049