![]() And sick people, sick women, especially women of color, are doubted. ![]() Yet the experience of illness lends itself to fiction, to the surreal: it distorts your perception of reality, your trust in your own body. The writer’s truth asserts the truth of personal experience, of life, over the truth of simple facts. Memoir is, among other things, an assertion of truth. Against the projections of doctors, family, and lovers, Khakpour sets down what it is to exist within the space of that encounter, struggling toward the truth of her experience. ![]() ![]() To be sick is to slide between dualities that separate body and mind, health and illness, fact and fiction. Porochista Khakpour’s Sick: A Memoir insists on sickness as an experience that collapses boundaries. ![]()
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