As seen in AMERICAN SYMPHONY on Netflix with Jon Batiste
''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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We all face moments that bring us to our knees: heartbreak, trauma, illness. 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.
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. For the next five years, her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. She became patient 5624. At twenty-seven, and celebrating her first year of remission, Suleika realized that, having survived, she now had no idea how to live. And so she set out to meet some of the ma
