![]() I’m always interested in traveling to where the silence is, so once I detected it, I knew that would be something that I wanted to interrogate.” There was this strange omertà of silence that seemed to enshroud survivorship. ![]() “But I didn’t feel excited I didn’t feel done. “I felt like I should be living some version of the heroic journey I’d been bombarded with,” she said in a phone interview. The idea for the road trip and the memoir arrived when Jaouad found herself at a crossroads. “ Between Two Kingdoms” drives home the fact that, where cancer is concerned, it takes an empire. ![]() By now, we all know it takes a village (albeit a socially distanced one) to endure illness, isolation and fear. These readers have been moved by Jaouad’s story of surviving cancer and then taking a 15,000-mile road trip to visit people - many of them strangers - who responded to the New York Times blog where she chronicled her experience as a young adult facing her own mortality. ROAD WARRIOR In the month since the publication of her memoir, “ Between Two Kingdoms,” which just spent three weeks on the hardcover nonfiction list, Suleika Jaoaud has heard from a number of individuals she didn’t expect to be in touch with - including her fourth grade teacher a California oncologist who was a fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City when Jaoaud was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 22 and a lawyer offering counsel to a Texas prisoner Jaouad writes about in the book. ![]()
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