Raucous family memoir meets medical adventure in this "winning literary debut" that explores the public and private theaters of illness (The New York Times Book Review).
After a pituitary tumor bursts in Mike Scalise's brain (diagnosed, by of all people a physician named Dr. Sunshine), it leaves him with a hole in head, and the hormone disorder acromegaly at age twenty-four. He also faces the exasperating challenge of navigating a new, alien world of illness maintenance among family, friends, and spouse. However, it's his mother, who has a chronic heart condition and a flair for drama, who becomes a complicated model as she competes with her son for the status of "best sick person."
"Captur[ing] all the fright of a medical calamity and the humor and grace necessary to survive it (Kirkus Reviews), "Mike Scalise's startling and slyly hilarious memoir is a heartfelt reminder of how astonishing, how terrifying, how absurd it is to be a body. An essential book for those who've lived through catastrophe, or only imagined it" (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine).
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January 9, 2017 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781941411346
- File size: 421 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781941411346
- File size: 421 KB
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- English
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