![]() Certain words stand out, including one she coined, “incanceration,” which captures her feelings about her lengthy and difficult hospital stays. ![]() ![]() Having to be a resident of the latter initially comes as a shock to this ambitious, energetic, and talented recent college graduate, who never expected her life to turn out the way it did, and who once looked at a future filled with infinite possibilities, only to see it “shrouded in doom.” But Jaouad dug deep over the ensuing four years to write a column for the New York Times, “Life, Interrupted,” about her cancer experiences, and here she painstakingly chronicles her treatment. In her searing memoir, Emmy Award–winning speaker, writer, and activist Jaouad describes how, diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at age 22, she found herself, as Susan Sontag described coping with cancer, as living in a world divided into two kingdoms: the healthy and the sick. ![]()
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