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1:32 During a visit to my local bookstore a couple weeks ago, a bookseller ushered me over to the nonfiction table and grabbed a copy of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad. “A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” was the subtitle. On the cover, a photo of the author and her terrier, Oscar, atop a goldenrod-colored Volkswagen bus. Hmmm, I dunno, I thought. But Anne, the bookseller, was insistent. It’s more than a medical memoir, she said. More than a book about surviving cancer. Then she tu...

May 10, 2021 By Suleika Jaouad Ms. Jaouad is the author of the memoir “Between Two Kingdoms,” where she writes about her friendship with Quintin Jones. In 2012 and 2013, she chronicled her experience with cancer in The Times. My world had narrowed to a tiny, white-walled, fluorescent-lit hospital room in New York in 2012. I was 23 and enduring a seemingly hopeless struggle with leukemia, and I had spent much of the previous year in medical isolation, at times too sick to speak. Iâ€�...

ON THE SAME PAGE: Lets get cozy with new books, film, CD titles Kim Jankowiak and Becca Brown, Manistee County Library April 28, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 "Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted" by Suleika Jaouad is a memoir of a young woman just starting out, only to be brought up short by a cancer diagnosis. After working so hard to survive, the author now tells her story on beginning to live again. (Courtesy photo) Show MoreShow Less 2of11 3of11 4of11 Greg Bears "The Un...

March 13, 2021 THE WASHINGTON POST – “Joy is a terrifying emotion, don’t trust it.” These are the words Suleika Jaouad wrote in her journal during a blissful post-college foray in Paris. As it turns out, her insight was prophetic. Soon a leukemia diagnosis split Jaouad’s life into two distinct parts: before and after. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted is a beautifully crafted account of this split, this rupture. Jaouad, who was 22 when she learned of her illness, d...

After Cancer at 22, What Comes Next? In an excerpt from her new book ‘Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted ,’ Suleika Jaoad recounts getting her life back after years spent battling cancer . Courtesy of Suleika Jaouad The hero’s journey is one of the oldest narratives in literature. Against all odds, the heroes persevere, becoming better, braver for their battle scars. Once victory has been secured, they return to the ordinary world transformed, with accrued wisdom and a ...

By Hamish MacPherson BACK IN THE DAY An archivist at The National Archives of Scotland, in Edinburgh, looks over the Act of Union of the Scottish Parliament, which dates back to January 16, 1707 IN this second of two columns on the Act of Union, I will show how the British Empire was founded on several articles of the Union, how England was favoured by most of the Articles, and I will end with a suggestion on how we Scots can put an end ...

Suleika Jaouad talks about “Between Two Kingdoms,” and Jason Zinoman discusses great memoirs by comedians.

Forward Fest public conversation series continues as part of A Year of Forward Thinking with focus on resilience, exploration by the Office of Communications Feb. 17, 2021 12:56 p.m. Forward Fest is a virtual public conversation series that aims to spark dialogue across the global Princeton community — students, faculty, staff, alumni and other interested thinkers — to engage with and explore big ideas and their infinite possibilities for shaping the future. The next Forward Fest ...

By Suleika Jaouad Random House: 368 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “Write as if you were dying,” Annie Dillard advised in her 1989 book “The Writing Life.” It’s a piece of wisdom Suleika Jaouad has taken to heart. Diagnosed at 22 with myeloid leukemia, she spent four years in the country of the sick and dying before returning to the landscape of the well. But is there really ...

Strength and joy go hand-in-hand, and this week’s literary releases beautifully celebrate both. In certain parts of the country, we’re knee-deep in snow and ice, and finding the strength to feel even the littlest joy is quite difficult. But we’ve almost hit the halfway point of February, the days are getting longer, and we can almost see warmer days ahead. This week, Suleika Jaouad’s memoir Between Two Kingdoms gives readers an empathetic insight into one of the more challenging points...