Bibliograph

Sick, a memoir, Porochista Khakpour

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Sick, a memoir, Porochista Khakpour

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sick

Responsibility statement

Porochista Khakpour

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

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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