One could imagine the variations in physical location are what, in some ways, got me to illness-and Lyme disease-in the first place. I wondered why setting would feel so foreign to me, when location changes have been more than simple set switches for me. In telling this story, it occurred to me that it wasn’t character or plot or even theme that was the ruling principle of its composition, but something far less likely: setting. Ahead she shares an excerpt from her newest book, Sick: A Memoir, out today, about her journey battling mental illness caused by an undiagnosed chronic disease. Porochista Khakpour is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and writer.
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