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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 turned to a map that spanned the first couple pages of the book. It showed a road-trip route across th...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Review of ‘Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir About Cancer and a Journey’ Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. ~Susan Sontag I read a lot of memoirs. I read a lot of memoirs about people with diseases. But when I read  Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad, I was still surprised that I w...

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, describes her three-and-a-half years of grueling treatment – chemotherapy, a clinical trial, a bone...

Beneath that anger, I was devastated. A year earlier, I was graduating from university and dreaming up plans – to be a foreign correspondent, to visit new and beautiful places. But instead, I was being thrown a very sad birthday gathering in an empty hospital waiting area. As my parents and a childhood friend sang and I blew out candles, I brooded: None of my plans are coming to pass. I fear they will never come to pass. Someone gave me a teddy bear as a gift, which sent me spinning back into fury. It was such a tender gesture, but I already felt so child-like. Sitting there in a pink zip-...