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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...

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. I’d never felt so alone. That’s when I got my first letter from a man in Texas named Quintin Phi...

ON THE SAME PAGE: Let's 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 Bear's "The Unfinished Land" is the story of a young fisherman's apprentice who finds himself caught between hum...

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...

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 renewed appreciation for life. Survivors, like heroes, have faced mortal danger and overcome impossi...