Between Two Kingdoms

An Emmy-award winning writer’s moving and inspirational memoir exploring what we can learn about life from a brush with death.

At just twenty-two, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukemia and given a 35 per cent chance of survival. For five years her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights, tubes and wires. She became patient 5624. At twenty-seven, and celebrating her first year of remission, Suleika realized that, having survived, she had no idea how to live. And so she set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her about their experiences of life, death, healing and recovery in response to her Emmy-Award winning New York Times column, ‘Life Interrupted’. Between Two Kingdoms is the result. We all face moments that bring us to our knees- heartbreak, trauma, illness. When things don’t go to plan, this is the book to reach for. Drawing on Suleika’s TED Talk, now with 4 million views, it illuminates universal questions about how we live, mourn, heal, grow up and begin again.

Author Biography

Suleika Jaouad is the author of New York Times bestselling memoir Between Two Kingdoms (translated into over 20 languages). She wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column and video series \“Life, Interrupted,\” and her essays and feature stories have appeared in New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Vogue, and more. She is the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary American Symphony alongside her husband Jon Batiste – a portrait of two artists during a year of extreme highs and lows. She is the creator of the Isolation Journals, a weekly newsletter and global community that harnesses creativity as a tool to navigate life.