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What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – Lessons from a Body in Revolt
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Author:
Tessa Miller
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co.
Date:
February 2, 2021
A candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today.
What The Reviewers Say
A bit of a throwback. A memoir of being diagnosed and living with Crohn’s disease, Miller’s book offers a didactic narrative, in Hawkins’s taxonomy, or a questing one, in Frank’s. Hers is one of triumph, if not restitution.
As more is learned about the long-term effects of COVID-19, health and science journalist Miller offers a timely description of the ramifications of a chronic illness. The story of her struggle with Crohn’s disease provides the undergirding for a broader look at how every aspect of life is impacted by any disease that doesn’t kill, but also doesn’t go away.
A young writer’s unflinching account of her battle with Crohn’s disease.
