TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khakpour, Porochista
TI  - Sick : a memoir
SN  - 1786896044
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Canongate
KW  - AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - CHRONIC DISEASE
KW  - LYME DISEASE
N2  - 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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