What happens when the body—the very vessel of our identity—stutters, breaks, or betrays us?
Within these pages, thirty-six writers pull back the bandages to reveal the raw, often humorous, and deeply human reality of living in a fragile frame. This landmark collaboration between Writers Read and Bellevue Literary Review brings together a diverse chorus of voices—physicians and patients, caregivers and survivors, emerging talents and established masters.
Resonant, piercing, and unexpectedly funny, this collection of true, personal medical stories is a testament to the enduring proclivity of the human spirit to heal, to hope, and to keep on writing.