The first is “ Life, Interrupted,” the video and text blog Jaouad began to write for the New York Times in 2012, a year after her diagnosis. The book’s title has a pair of antecedents. Such a conundrum sits at the center of “ Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,” Jaouad’s account of her sickness and recovery. “he mystery is not ‘if’ but ‘when’ death appears in the plotline.” But is there really a divide between health and illness? “We are all terminal patients on this earth,” Jaouad reminds us. Diagnosed at 22 with myeloid leukemia, she spent four years in the country of the sick and dying before returning to the landscape of the well. “Write as if you were dying,” Annie Dillard advised in her 1989 book “ The Writing Life.” It’s a piece of wisdom Suleika Jaouad has taken to heart. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted"
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