![]() ![]() They spend her last three days in New York together in her bedroom and correspond through email and letters when she moves. Several days before she leaves for Paris, Suleika meets a man named Will while catching a taxi home from a party. ![]() Suleika graduates from college, and after an internship in New York City, she moves to Paris to be a paralegal. She rationalizes her symptoms as the result of partying and stress. She’s been exhausted and taking hours-long naps while everyone around her is partying and studying and sleeping at odd hours. It’s her senior year of college, and she has an itch that won’t go away. Suleika Jaouad is a Princeton University student who speaks three languages and dreams of becoming a foreign correspondent in Northern Africa, but something strange is happening in her body. This guide uses the first edition hardback edition published by Random House in 2021. The book was an instant New York Times best seller. The book narrates and reflects on these years in and out of treatment. The blog and column explored how a person so young processes the possibility of death. ![]() The column also included video interviews of Jaouad’s family and then-boyfriend in which they discuss their questions, decisions, and concerns regarding her illness. ![]() In the early 2010s, Jaouad started a blog and then New York Times column “Life, Interrupted,” discussing her illness and treatment. ![]()
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