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In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author Porochista Khakpour’s struggles with late-stage Lyme disease.

For as long as writer Porochista Khakpour may remember, she’s been sick. For most of that time, she didn’t understand why. Most of her travels to the ER and her daily anguish, pain, and lethargy just ever resulted in one query: How could anybody person become this sick? Many medication addictions, three major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally experienced a medical diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease.

Ill is Khakpour’s arduous, emotional journey-as a female, a writer, and a lifelong victim of undiagnosed wellness problems-through the chronic disease that perpetually still left her a sufferer of nervousness, living a lifestyle stymied by an unknown condition.

Divided by settings, Khakpour courses the reader through her illness by way of the locations that changed her course-New York, LA, Brand-new Mexico, and Germany-as she meditates on both the physical and psychological effects of uncertainty, and the eventual challenge of taking the diagnosis she got searched for over the course of her adult life. With candor and elegance, she examines her subsequent challenges with mental illness, her addiction to the benzodiazepines prescribed by her psychiatrists, and her ever-deteriorating physical wellness.

A tale about survival, discomfort, and transformation, Ill is a candid, illuminating narrative of hope and uncertainty, boldly examining the deep effect of illness on one woman’s life.