Cover art for Sick
Published
Canongate, September 2018
ISBN
9781786896049
Format
Softcover, 272 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.7cm

Sick A Memoir

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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.

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