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 e.
University Of Utah Press Every last breath: a memoir of two illnesses, paperback/joanne jacobson
