Suleika Jaouad wrote the Emmy Award–winning New York Times column Life, Interrupted. Her essays and feature stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Vogue and on NPR. She is also the creator of the Isolation Journals, a global project cultivating creativity and community during challenging times. Between Two Kingdoms is her first book.
“Here is the key to Between Two Kingdoms—Jaouad’s disarming
honesty. There is no self-pity in this telling and few of the
expected pieties . . . Jaouad is writing about a process, a
back-and-forth. In the tension between health and sickness, past
and present, a new balance must be forged.”—Los Angeles Times
“Jaouad’s book stands out not only because she has lived to parse
the saga of her medical battle with the benefit of hindsight, but
also because it encompasses the less familiar tale of what it’s
like to survive and have to figure out how to live again.”—NPR
“I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad
anywhere. Her sensory snapshots remain in my mind long after
reading . . . Not only can Jaouad tolerate the unbearable feelings,
she can reshape them into poetry . . . 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, not only readers who’ve faced a
life-changing—and potentially life-ending—diagnosis. . . . The
timing of this memoir is just right.”—The Washington Post
“When the life we had is snatched away, how do we find the
conviction to live another? Between Two Kingdoms will
resonate with anyone who is living a different life than they
planned to live. This is a propulsive, soulful story of mourning
and gratitude—and an intimate portrait of one woman’s sojourn in
the wilderness between life and death.”—Tara Westover, author
of Educated
“A beautiful, elegant, and heartbreaking book that provides a
glimpse into the kingdom of illness . . . Suleika Jaouad avoids
sentimentality but manages to convey the depth of the emotional
turmoil that illness can bring into our lives.”—Siddhartha
Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies
“In a book bubbling with ambition and impeccable skill, it is what
Suleika Jaouad does with courage and secondary characters that is
simply once in a generation. Between Two Kingdoms mended
parts I thought were forever disintegrated.”—Kiese Laymon, author
of Heavy
"This is a deeply moving and passionate work of art, quite unlike
anything I’ve ever read. I will remember these stories for years to
come, because Suleika Jaouad has imprinted them on my
heart.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love
“Jaouad does a beautiful job of writing from this place of ‘dual
citizenship,’ where she finds pain but also joy, kinship, and
possibility.”—Library Journal (starred review)
“Memorable, lyrical, and ultimately hopeful: a book that speaks
intently to anyone who suffers from illness and loss.”—Kirkus
Reviews
“Boldly candid and truly memorable.”—Booklist (starred
review)
“This is a stunning memoir, well-crafted and hard to put
down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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