Diagnosed with leukemia aged just twenty-two, the Emmy-award winning author was given a 35 per cent chance of survival. This is her moving and inspirational memoir exploring what we can learn about life from a brush with death. It illuminates universal questions about how we live, mourn, heal, grow up, and what it means to begin again. Suleika Jaouad is an Emmy Award-winning writer, speaker, cancer survivor and activist.