A well-meaning and often compelling story of one woman’s relentless pursuit of an effective treatment for the devastating...
A Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star recounts her arduous battle with Lyme disease.
In this no-holds-barred memoir, Dutch-born former model and reality star Hadid tracks the debilitating symptoms that led to and progressively expanded beyond her eventual diagnosis for this chronic illness. In 2012, as filming was beginning for her first season on the Real Housewives and after having been misdiagnosed for close to two years, her condition became severe, dramatically curbing her professional and social lives and requiring prolonged periods of bed rest. The agonizing symptoms included intense joint pain and swelling, migraines, brain fog, blurred vision, and confronting an unseemly assortment of parasites. Over the next several years, Hadid’s journey would evolve into a desperate search for effective treatments, if not an outright cure. She visited dozens of medical and holistic treatment facilities throughout the world and underwent countless tests and procedures. Through expansive research and experience, the author effectively leverages her celebrity status as a persuasive spokesperson communicating the hardships endured by multitudes of sufferers who lack the financial means or insurance coverage to explore these potential resources. Yet this is also a Hollywood celebrity story, and readers who may not be fans of the Real Housewives series, with its reputation for tabloid-provoking drama, might question Hadid’s wisdom for having signed on to the program, feeling less sympathy for the intense media scrutiny that she and her family were forced to endure. Though her suffering has served as a grounding experience for the author to rise above the fray, it seems unlikely she or her children—two of whom were also diagnosed with Lyme disease—all celebrated runway models, are ready to step away from the limelight anytime soon.
A well-meaning and often compelling story of one woman’s relentless pursuit of an effective treatment for the devastating chronic effects of Lyme disease that should expand public awareness for this deeply misunderstood condition.Pub Date: Sept. 12, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-250-12165-3
Page Count: 320
Publisher: St. Martin's
Review Posted Online: July 3, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2017
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative chronicling the ghastly conditions three pregnant women suffered...
The incredible true story of three Jewish women who survived the Holocaust.
Priska, Rachel, and Anka were married Jewish women in their early 20s when the Nazis took control of Europe. Like millions of other Jews, they were forced to give up their normal lives, all of their belongings, and their homes. Shuttled into ghettos and then off to one of the most notorious camps, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, they suffered through the Nazis’ increasing atrocities. But these three women all held a secret: they were pregnant. They were moved from Auschwitz and ended up in Mauthausen, another notorious death camp. With facing the most horrible conditions imaginable, all three gave birth right before the Allies accepted Germany’s surrender. In this meticulously detailed account, Holden (Haatchi & Little B: The Inspiring True Story of One Boy and His Dog, 2014, etc.) compiles an enormous amount of information from interviews, letters, historical records, and personal visits to the sites where this story unfolded. The graphic history places readers in the moment and provides a sense of the enduring power of love that Priska, Rachel, and Anka had for their unborn children and for the husbands they so desperately hoped to see after the war. Even though it occurred more than 70 years ago, the story’s truth is so chillingly portrayed that it seems as if it could have happened recently. These three women and their infants survived in the face of death, and, Holden writes, “their babies went on to have babies of their own and create a second and then a third generation, all of whom continue to live their lives in defiance of Hitler’s plan to erase them from history and from memory.”
An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative chronicling the ghastly conditions three pregnant women suffered through at the hands of the Nazis.Pub Date: May 5, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-06-237025-9
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: March 28, 2015
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