Suleika Jaouad
Author
Language
English
Description
An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.
A few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, Jaouad received a diagnosis of leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling...
Author
Publisher
Lua De Papel
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Portuguese
Description
Naquele ano, o mundo parecia sorrir a Suleika. Tinha acabado o curso e ia começar uma nova vida em Paris, ao lado de Will, por quem se tinha apaixonado perdidamente. Podia ser um conto de fadas, não fosse aquela comichão que crescia de dia para dia, o cansaço, a falta de força. No meio do sonho em construção, e aos 23 anos, chegou o diagnóstico: leucemia. Suleika regressou aos EUA sem emprego, casa ou liberdade. E começou a sua longa caminhada...
Author
Publisher
Professional Book Nerds
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Adam speaks with Suleika Jaouad, bestselling debut author of Between Two Kingdoms. They discuss her battle with Leukemia, her struggle to find herself in the world when she was pronounced healthy, the isolation of the ongoing pandemic, and writing what she knows to a place she doesn't yet know.
