2024财政年度夏季阅读
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
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We're excited to announce that the summer reading for the 2028届 is Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted 作者:Suleika Jaouad. Jaouad’s poignant memoir has spent 22 weeks on the New York Times
bestseller list and chronicles her time in the kingdom of the sick, the kingdom of
the well, and her passage through the liminal space between these two worlds. 通过
Jaouad’s story of strength, survival, and resilience, readers will consider the meaning
of friendship, community, and creativity and how to live in the present given the
未来的不确定性.
散文与反思
作者:larry m. 约根森, PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF PHILOSOPHY | Some of Suleika Jaouad’s memoir’s most beautiful moments are scenes between Suleika and her partner, 将. Their relationship illustrates the deep value of care and support in difficult times but also raises a difficult question: What should we do when love does not survive?- 劳里·拉比诺维茨著, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION STUDIES | As a former elementary educator and current teacher educator, what stands out to me the most in Jaouad’s (2021) Between Two Kingdoms is the author’s longing for representation. 通过out the work, Jaouad yearns for the narratives of other young adults who have had cancer. I was especially struck when she discusses binge watching a Kate Hudson movie called A Little Bit of Heaven (Kessell, 2011). This is not the type of media one would expect someone to connect deeply with.
- 蒂尔曼·内特曼著, 历史教授|在她的回忆录中, 雅瓦德也有同样的悲叹, namely the truth that only the profoundly sick can fully appreciate the comparative value of genuine healthiness. She’s not unlike Moses after he comes down from Mount Sinai. In receiving the Ten Commandments, he’s come too close to the face of Eternity. It’s an exposure that’s changed him and left him radiant with a deeper wisdom. Jaouad同样容光焕发.
- 丽贝卡·麦克纳马拉著, 副馆长, TANG TEACHING MUSEUM | Learning about a stranger’s anguish and suffering can feel like voyeurism, 即使那个陌生人邀请我们进去. When reading Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, I repeatedly wanted to turn away rather than trespass on such intimate details in her battle with cancer. So many of us are un-practiced at engaging in someone else’s bodily pain, with their mortality — with visiting the kingdom of the sick when we are in the kingdom of the well.
- 夏洛特·德·伊夫林著, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MUSIC | I have spent over a decade studying musicians at the Mongolia-China border and have a keen interest in ethnic and cultural in-betweenness. 以学术为导向, I found myself immediately probing questions about the betweenness suggested by the title of Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms.
- 叶莲娜·比伯曼-奥克利著, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE | This is the age of difficult conversations. 有些人已经准备好了，非常准备好了. 有些则不然. They would say anything, do anything, to avoid them. Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms is one such conversation. It is about illness, pain, death, the burden of hope.
- 安吉拉·瓦尔登, 副馆长,STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS EDITOR | Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted is a testament to the power of telling one’s own story and seeing oneself in someone else’s – a foundation for connection that is as essential to survival as any other basic human need.
- 布鲁克·paradise, ASSOCIATE DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS FOR INCLUSION AND ENGAGEMENT | With each struggle Jaouad presented in this book, 我发现自己痊愈了, 相信她的话, and applying them to my own life’s metaphorical cancer. I realized I have been too focused on absolutes—either I have moved on and everything is fine, 或者我被困住了, 一切都无法改善. However, Jaouad reminds us that life is not so black and white. Because of this book, I have given myself permission to live in the middle terrain.