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      Cost of Living: Essays

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      A Best Book of 2022 - USA TODAY
      Named one of the Chicago Public Library''s "Best Books of 2022"

      Astute, compassionate and lethally funny. Maloney is an exceptionally alert writer on whom nothing is lost, who sees everything with excruciating cl...

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      Product ID:9781250213297
      Product Form:Hardback
      Country of Manufacture:US
      Title:Cost of Living
      Subtitle:Essays
      Authors:Author: Emily Maloney
      Page Count:240
      Subjects:Biography and non-fiction prose, Prose: non-fiction, Medicine: general issues, Medicine: general issues
      Description:Select Guide Rating

      A Best Book of 2022 - USA TODAY
      Named one of the Chicago Public Library''s "Best Books of 2022"

      Astute, compassionate and lethally funny. Maloney is an exceptionally alert writer on whom nothing is lost, who sees everything with excruciating clarity.Sarah Manguso, The New York Times

      The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combines with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exams in a collection of essays chronicling one woman’s experiences as both patient and caregiver, giving a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital bed.


      What does it cost to live?

      When we fall ill, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents, breast cancers, blood diseases, and dark depressions.

      When Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only cost a great deal personally, but also financially, sending her down a dark spiral of misdiagnoses, years spent in and out of hospitals and doctor’s offices, and tens of thousands owed in medical debt. To work to pay off this crippling burden, Emily becomes an emergency room technician. Doing the grunt work in a hospital, and taking care of patients at their most vulnerable moments, chronicling these interactions in searingly beautiful, surprising ways.

      Shocking and often slyly humorous, Cost of Living is a brilliant examination of just what exactly our troubled healthcare system asks us to pay, as well as a look at what goes on behind the scenes at our hospitals and in the minds of caregivers.


      Imprint Name:St Martin's Press
      Publisher Name:St Martin's Press
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2022-02-08

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      Weight416 g
      Dimensions243 × 163 × 28 mm