The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”- The Washington Post
Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”-Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review
“I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life-from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times. She recalled visiting her parents in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., about a week into the expedition: “My dad explained to me how, if you lean forward and look in the mirror, you can notice your blind spots. Jaoaud’s nearest and dearest understood that there was no talking her out of her journey once her mind was made up, although some worried about her safety since she’d only had her driver’s license for a month. I’m always interested in traveling to where the silence is, so once I detected it, I knew that would be something that I wanted to interrogate.” There was this strange omertà of silence that seemed to enshroud survivorship. “But I didn’t feel excited I didn’t feel done. “I felt like I should be living some version of the heroic journey I’d been bombarded with,” she said in a phone interview. The idea for the road trip and the memoir arrived when Jaouad found herself at a crossroads. “ Between Two Kingdoms” drives home the fact that, where cancer is concerned, it takes an empire. By now, we all know it takes a village (albeit a socially distanced one) to endure illness, isolation and fear. These readers have been moved by Jaouad’s story of surviving cancer and then taking a 15,000-mile road trip to visit people - many of them strangers - who responded to the New York Times blog where she chronicled her experience as a young adult facing her own mortality. ROAD WARRIOR In the month since the publication of her memoir, “ Between Two Kingdoms,” which just spent three weeks on the hardcover nonfiction list, Suleika Jaoaud has heard from a number of individuals she didn’t expect to be in touch with - including her fourth grade teacher a California oncologist who was a fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City when Jaoaud was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 22 and a lawyer offering counsel to a Texas prisoner Jaouad writes about in the book.
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