Description
When Joanne Jacobson's writing about her mother's respiratory illness was interrupted by her own diagnosis with a rare blood disorder, she found her perspective profoundly altered. Every Last Breath follows these two chronic illnesses as they grow unexpectedly intertwined. Rejecting a fixed, retrospective point of view and the forward-moving trajectory of conventional memoir, Jacobson brings the reader to the emotionally raw present--where potentially fatal illness and "end of life" both remain, emphatically, life. As chronic illness blurs the distinction between illness and wellness, she discovers how a lifetime of relapse and remission can invite transformation. Written at the fluid, unsettling boundary between prose and poetry, these essays offer a narrative diagnosis of ongoing revision.
Author: Joanne Jacobson
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 10/09/2020
Pages: 114
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.30w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781647690014
ISBN10: 1647690013
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | People with Disabilities
- Medical | Emergency Medicine
- Biography & Autobiography | Jewish
Author: Joanne Jacobson
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 10/09/2020
Pages: 114
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.30w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781647690014
ISBN10: 1647690013
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | People with Disabilities
- Medical | Emergency Medicine
- Biography & Autobiography | Jewish
About the Author
Joanne Jacobson is the author of Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams (1992) and Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (2007). Her critical essays and memoirs have appeared in such publications as Bellevue Literary Review, New England Review, Fourth Genre, and The Nation and her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.