Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc. A standby line will form one hour before the program. Porochista Khakpour is the author of the memoir Sick (Harper Perennial, June 2018)a Most Anticipated Book of 2018, according to HuffPost, Bustle, Bitch, Nylon, Volume1 Brooklyn, The Rumpus, and more. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. Porochista Khakpour is the author of the memoir Sick (HarperPerennial, forthcoming 2018), as well as the novels The Last Illusion (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove, 2007). Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle toward health with an.

Humane, searching, and unapologetic, Sick is about the thin lines and vast distances between illness and wellness, healing and suffering, the body and the self. “ Sick is something gut-wrenching and new, a globally intimate book.” They join Khakpour for a conversation about what it takes to write one’s way through illness.įor free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Porochista Khakpours memoir SICK is much more than a diary of her experience living and suffering with Lyme disease. 'Porochista Khakpour's powerful memoir, Sick, reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core. “This is a book that throws me into the time of my own being,” writes poet and novelist Eileen Myles. When she ultimately learns of her late-stage Lyme disease, she embarks on an arduous and emotional quest for a cure that takes her from New York to Los Angeles, New Mexico, and Germany, all the while meditating on the physical and psychological impacts of uncertainty, and the eventual challenge of accepting the diagnosis she had searched for over the course of her adult life. In her new memoir, Sick, Porochista Khakpour recounts a lifetime of misdiagnoses that left her riddled with anxiety about an unknown cause. How do you survive an illness when the source of the ailment can’t be named?

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