Description: Susan Griffin's passionate and sophisticated writing ponders how society benefits physically, spiritually, and emotionally from understanding illness. Themes of social injustice, economic inequality, and women's body imagery are intermingled with Griffin's personal recovery from chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS) and the story of Marie de Plessis, popularized as Camille, an 18th-century courtesan whose sad young life was taken by tuberculosis. Bold, intimate, and cutting-edge, Griffin blurs the boundaries between private and public and explores the connections between literature, meditation, illness, and corruption.

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