So lucky / Nicola Griffith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith, Nicola, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiple sclerosis--Psychological aspects.

Health services accessibility.

United States.

Health services accessibility--United States--Fiction.

Multiple sclerosis--Psychological aspects--Fiction.

Multiple sclerosis.

Life change events--Fiction.

Life change events.

Genre:

Autobiographical fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

180 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : MCD X FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018.

Summary:

Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can't rely on family, her body is letting her down, and friends and colleagues are turning away--they treat her like a victim. She needs to break that narrative: build her own community, learn new strengths, and fight. But what do you do when you find out that the story you've been told, the story you'vetold yourself, is not true? How can you fight if you can't trust your body? Who can you rely on if those around you don't have your best interests at heart, and the systems designed to help do more harm than good? Mara makes a decision and acts, but her actions unleash monsters aimed squarely at the heart of her new community. This is fiction from the front lines, incandescent and urgent, a narrative juggernaut that rips through sentiment to expose the savagery of America's treatment of the disabled and chronically ill. But So Lucky also blazes with hope and a ferocious love of self, of the life that becomes possible when we stop believing lies.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780374265922

0374265925

OCLC:

1010578748