Sick porochista khakpour5/28/2023 At the center of the book and this enduring rootlessness is late-stage Lyme disease, a host of nebulous ailments. As an adult she has been in almost perpetual movement, and Sick is structured by the cities (among them, LA, Leipzig, Santa Fe, New York) that she passes between, and the various men who shape and bear witness to her life. Born in Tehran in 1978, the writer was a child of revolution and war, and then a refugee when she was three her family fled to America, which for decades her father insisted was a place of temporary settlement. Porochista Khakpour’s recent memoir, Sick, has been described as a narrative of malady, but it is also a story of displacement. What is the body but a first and imperfect home? And if the body is a home, then illness can be like an eviction notice, or a bad deed of sale.
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