Sick a memoir by porochista khakpour skunk

In the course of doing my doctoral research on women’s health with a special focus on chronic pain, I came across a book published by the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins (June, 5 2018) written byPorochista KhakpourcalledSICK.

The book is a memoir of her painful journey of living with a chronic illness — late-stage Lyme disease, which is caused by the bite of a tick that carries the Borrelia bacterium. Her story begins with her birth in Tehran, her upbringing in the outskirts of Los Angeles as an immigrant, coupled with her repeated misdiagnoses, as well as the myths of recovery and later the medical addiction she was subject to; Sick reminded me of the stories I have heard from the Dalit women in rural Karnataka in the course of my research. 

Author: Porochista Khakpour

Publisher: Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins (June 5, 2018)

Genre: Non-fiction and memoir

Khakpour builds her narrative in Sick using the various places she has lived in a