In attempt to recover herself from the disease, she sets on a road trip around the United States with her mutt Oscar to meet all the people who wrote her letter and send her support during her years of treatment. After several months of intense chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant, the cancer returns again and Suleika spends another few years fighting with the disease until she is finally ready to rejoin the kingdom of the healthy – which turns out not to be as simple as it seems as she is still healing from years of emotional trauma and suffering. Getting sick is already devastating but getting sick as a young adult who is just starting their life and who is supposed to be living their best life is crushing. Everything seems to be going great until one day Suleika has to be rushed back to the United States realizing that she has bone marrow cancer and start her yearlong treatments. Being fluent in French because of her Tunisian father, she managed to get a job in Paris as paralegal, moved there along with her new boyfriend Will and is starting her exciting adult life. “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” is an autobiographical memoir by Suleika Jaouad – a young woman from the Tunisian and Swiss background in the United States who just finished university and is starting her adult life. When I am looking for something good to read, I often scan through Heather’s list and find something that intrigues me – this time it was the memoire by Suleika Jaouad. I picked up “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” by Suleika Jaouad because if was on the list of Heather’s top picks from Indigo Chapters. I think it stood for me really close to “Educated” by Tara Westover – I swallowed this book within a few days: it was moving, engaging, simply yet beautifully written. It has been a while since I have last read a memoir as good as “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” by Suleika Jaouad.

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