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If you enjoyed the show, please share it with a friend. At a minimum, it’ll open your eyes in a big way. IT’S FREE () and takes about 7-minutes to complete. 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. Have you discovered your Sparketype yet? Take the Sparketype Assessment™ now. Her debut memoir, Between Two Kingdoms (), is a gorgeously written exploration of so many moments, people and stories that have led to her this moment in life. She is also the creator of the Isolation Journals, a community creativity project founded during the Covid-19 pandemic to help others convert isolation into artistic solitude over 100,000 people from around the world have joined. Suleika served on Barack Obama's Presidential Cancer Panel, the national advisory board of the Bone Marrow and Cancer Foundation, and the Brooklyn Public Library’s Arts & Letters Committee. She began writing her New York Times column and Emmy-award winning video-series “Life, Interrupted” from her hospital room at Sloan-Kettering, and has written reported features, essays and commentary for New York Times Magazine, Vogue and NPR, among other publications. Leaving music behind, she thought she’d a war correspondent, but her plans were cut short when, at age 22, she was diagnosed with leukemia that led to a brutal 4-year stint in and out of the hospital, with multiple rounds of chemo, and a bone marrow transplant. Between Two Kingdoms is the result.ĭrawing on Suleika's TED Talk, now with 2.9 million views, it illuminates universal questions about how we live, mourn, heal, grow up and begin again.Born in New York City to a Tunisian father and a Swiss mother, Suleika Jaouad attended The Juilliard School's pre-college program for the double bass, and earned her BA with highest honors from Princeton University and an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College. And so she set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her about their experiences of life, death, healing and recovery in response to her Emmy-Award winning New York Times column, 'Life Interrupted'. She became patient 5624.Īt twenty-seven, and celebrating her first year of remission, Suleika realized that, having survived, she had no idea how to live. For five years her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. When things don't go to plan this is the book to reach for - an inspirational memoir about what the struggle to survive teaches us about how to live.Īt just twenty-two, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukemia and given a 35 per cent chance of survival. We all face moments that bring us to our knees - heartbreak, trauma, illness. An Emmy-award winning writer's moving and inspirational memoir exploring what we can learn about life from a brush with death.

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