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Chronic Illness Storytime: Sick Lit Memoirs

The Authors. Top L-R: Lunden, Mailhot, O’Rourke, Jaouad; Bottom L-R: Foo, Ramey, Henley, Chong

To become chronically ill is not only to have a disease that you have to manage, but to have a new story about yourself, a story that many people refuse to hear—because it is deeply unsatisfying, full of fits and starts, anger, resentment, chasms of unruly need. My own illness story has no destination.

Meghan O’Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom

Imagine falling into a well, tumbling deeper until you crash down into the ghostly ballroom of a towering manor. You come to in the middle of what appears to be a murder mystery party you definitely did not RSVP to.

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