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Suleika Jaouad


Born
in New York City, NY, The United States
July 05, 1988

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Genre
Memoir, Travel, Art

Influences
Frida Kahlo, Joan Didion, Jon Batiste (husband) ...more


Suleika Jaouad (pronounced Su-lake-uh Ja-wad) is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, author, artist, and advocate. She documented her odyssey of illness, healing, and self-discovery in the instant New York Times bestselling memoir Between Two Kingdoms, which has been translated into over twenty languages. In her second bestselling book, The Book of Alchemy, she meditates on the central questions of life and distills how a creative practice can help us transmute the seemingly commonplace or difficult parts of living into something meaningful, useful, and even beautiful.

Jaouad wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column “Life, Interrupted.” Her essays and reported features have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue and NPR. She ...more

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Average rating: 4.42 · 135,411 ratings · 12,909 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
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“He has a theory: When we travel, we actually take three trips. There’s the first trip of preparation and anticipation, packing and daydreaming. There’s the trip you’re actually on. And then, there’s the trip you remember. “The key is to try to keep all three as separate as possible,” he says. “The key is to be present wherever you are right now.” This advice, more than any, stays with me.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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“May I be awake enough to notice when love appears and bold enough to pursue it without knowing where it will end”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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“Grief is a ghost that visits without warning. It comes in the night and rips you from your sleep. It fills your chest with shards of glass. It interrupts you mid-laugh when you’re at a party, chastising you that, just for a moment, you’ve forgotten. It haunts you until it becomes a part of you, shadowing you breath for breath.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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Ok Ladies - time for the Nov/Dec nonfiction book poll. We have an abundance of choices this month. We bypassed our mandatory 10 books almost overnight. So be sure to get in there and vote for your choice.

This poll will stay open until the end of the day on October 23rd.

Good luck to all the nominators...

(PS if you haven't already and it is still open be sure to vote for the Members Choice tie breaker too! Thanks )

 
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