In those early days of leading a school during Covid, I noted the website and joined Suleika’s mailing list but did not connect the dots that she was the creative force behind the Isolation Journals and the 100 Day Project and the author of this memoir until I listened to Between Two Kingdoms this spring. A friend of mine, in the early weeks of the pandemic, had shared with me Suleika’s website, The Isolation Journals and her 100 Day Project in which participants commit to creating one beautiful thing each day. Sadly, her blood cancer, in remission by the end of Between Two Kingdoms, is back. Last spring, she married musician Jon Batiste. As a young woman battling blood cancer, she launched a column in the New York Times called “Life, Interrupted.” She published her memoir, Between Two Kingdoms, a record of her illness and an amazing cross-country road trip that followed, that is accessible, intimate, and riveting. I loved it.By now, Suleika Jaoud’s story is quite well known.
Full of wisdom and resilience.' ADAM GRANT, author of Originals 'A deeply touching account of learning to live in the now, because nothing else is promised. Praise for Between Two Kingdoms: 'A work of breathtaking creativity and heart-stopping humanity.' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of Eat Pray Love 'A beautiful, elegant and heart-breaking book that provides a glimpse into the kingdom of illness.' SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies 'No more doomscrolling.
Drawing on Suleika's TED Talk, now with 4 million views, it illuminates universal questions about how we live, mourn, heal and grow up, and what it means to begin again. And so she set out to meet some of the many strangers who had written to her about their experiences of life, death, healing and recovery in response to her Emmy-Award winning New York Times column, 'Life Interrupted'. She became patient 5624.Īt twenty-seven, and celebrating her first year of remission, Suleika realized that, having survived, she now had no idea how to live. For the next five years, her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. At just twenty-two, on the cusp of adult life, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukemia and given a 35 per cent chance of survival. When things don't go to plan this is the book to reach for - an inspirational memoir about what we can learn about life from a brush with death. We all face moments that bring us to our knees: heartbreak, trauma, illness. 'A propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitude - and an intimate portrait of one woman's sojourn in the wilderness between life and death.' TARA WESTOVER, author of Educated
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