Medical Memoir
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy (Book Review)
Fiona Murphy focuses her lyrical memoir, The Shape of Sound, on her experience with hearing and deafness. We follow her memories of childhood up until the present. So, we learn about her ongoing denial of being deaf in one ear. She analyzes how and why she hid her...
Rebecca Whitehead Munn — All of Us Warriors (Book Review)
Cancer touched the life of Rebecca Whitehead Munn at an early age. Together with a wide circle of cancer patients and family members, she created All of Us Warriors: Cancer Stories of Survival and Loss. As often happens with cancer and other illnesses, this group of...
Nicole Bell — What Lurks in the Woods (Book Review)
Nicole Bell tells her story of a thriving marriage unexpectedly disrupted in What Lurks in the Woods: Struggle and Hope in the Midst of Chronic Illness. Once I started it, I couldn’t put it down. Bell and her husband have two young kids. She lands a dream job, they...
Leigh Cowart — Hurts So Good (Book Review)
Leigh Cowart explores why people consent to experience pain in their upcoming book, Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose. They take the science of pain and correlate it with a variety of intentional experiences from ballet class to eating wildly...
Renée Nicholson — Fierce and Delicate (Book Review)
Renée Nicholson writes about two different parts of her life in Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness. Initially, she’s the young dancer making sense of competition, instructor corrections, and visions of the future. As the essays progress, Nicholson...
Ayelet Waldman — A Really Good Day (Book Review)
Ayelet Waldman is a privileged mom of four teenagers, married to a fellow writer, and living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also lives with a variety of mental health diagnoses, some of which she questions. A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference...
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