![]() A tribute to the power of humanity, generosity and endurance, Girl in the Dark is incredibly powerful stuff.” - The Guardian (London) “Sparkles with dark humor and wonder at the world. Her insights jump off the page like challenges… extremely readable and upliftingly brave memoir.” ![]() ![]() ![]() “Stories about illness or adversity often end up feeling like self-help books. A luminous account that celebrates everything that is best about being human.” a gorgeous writer of rare honesty and wit.” Susannah Cahalan, author of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire This book is a gift, a testament to the power of art as a saving grace.” I read this book, a memoir that reads like an epic poem, pen in hand, feverishly underlining sentence after sentence. But this story is so much more than a medical mystery or a nightmarishly true tale. “The premise of Girl in the Dark seems lifted out of a Gothic novel: a woman whose flesh is burned by light is confined to a dark box of a room. ![]() Its honesty, bravery and touches of black comedy will be a help to anyone suffering from a chronic illness as well as to those who-at least for now-are spared.” “What stays with the reader is gutsiness, her imagination and fortitude.” reveals the quiet, ingenious consciousness of a poet.” has found new ways to look at the world, out of the darkness.” ![]()
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