
Sick is Khakpour's grueling, emotional journey-as a woman, an Iranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems-in which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and her addiction to doctor prescribed benzodiazepines, that both aided and eroded her ever-deteriorating physical health.

Several drug addictions, some major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease.

For most of that time, she didn't know why. For as long as author Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books Bustle's 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list Nylon's 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Electric Literature's 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018 Huffington Post's 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 Bitch's 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 The Rumpus's What to Read When 2018 is Just Around the Corner Vol.1 Brooklyn's : A Literary Preview for the Year to Come The Millions Most Anticipated 2018 List Auto Straddle Most Anticipated 2018 Preview The Coil's Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 A powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery.
