Head above Water Reflections on Illness【電子書籍】[ Shahd Alshammari ]

＜p＞＜strong＞This lyrical hybrid memoir revisits a lifetime's worth of personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illnessーa moving account of survival, memory, loss, and hope.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist that she would not make it past age thirty. Despite what she is told, by thirty, she has become a professor of literature, and has managed to navigate education systems in both Kuwait and the United Kingdom and inspire generations of students.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Head above Water＜/em＞ is the painstaking, philosophical memoir of Shahd Alshammari's life of triumph and resistance, as the daughter of a Palestinian mother and Bedouin father, as a woman marked "ill" by society, and as a lifelong reader, student, and teacher. Charting her journey with raw honesty, Shahd explores disability, displacement, and belongingーnot only of the body, but of culture, gender, and race, and imparts ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る