Reading Time
1 hrs 45 mins
How long to read Every Last Breath: A Memoir of Two Illnesses?
The estimated word count of Every Last Breath: A Memoir of Two Illnesses is 26,195 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 1 hrs 45 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 55 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 0 hrs 59 mins.
| Every Last Breath: A Memoir of Two Illnesses - 26,195 words | ||
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| Slow | 150 words/min | 2 hrs 55 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 1 hrs 45 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 0 hrs 59 mins |
- Authors
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Joanne Jacobson
More about Every Last Breath: A Memoir of Two Illnesses
26,195 words
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for Every Last Breath: A Memoir of Two Illnesses
2 hours and 49 minutes
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Description
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 “end of life” both remain, emphatically, life. As chronic illness blurs the distinction between illness and wellness, she discovers how a lifetime of relapse and remission can invite transformation. Written at the fluid, unsettling boundary between prose and poetry, these essays offer a narrative diagnosis of ongoing revision.