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The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Recovery
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{{Infobox book | name = The Deep Places. A Memoir of Illness and Recovery | image = File:TheDeepPlaces-RossDouthat.jpg | caption = | author = [[Ross Douthat]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | subject = Chronic Illness | genre = Autobiography, Memoir, Audiobooks | publisher = Penguin Random House | pub_date = Oct 26, 2021 | media_type = print, digital, audiobook | pages = | isbn = 9780593237366 (hardback), 9780593237373 (ebook), 9780593417713 (audiobook, abridged) | website = https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646761/the-deep-places-by-ross-douthat/ }} '''The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Recovery''' is a memoir by New York Times columnist and political commentator [[Ross Douthat]] published in 2021. ==Publisher's synopsis== ''(This synopsis was provided by the publisher for promotional purposes. For book reviews, please see Links section below.)'' "In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, D.C., to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque Connecticut town when he acquired a mysterious and devastating sickness. It left him sleepless, crippled, wracked with pain–a shell of himself. After months of seeing doctors and descending deeper into a physical inferno, he discovered that he had a disease which according to CDC definitions does not actually exist: the chronic form of Lyme disease, a hotly contested condition that devastates the lives of tens of thousands of people but has no official recognition–and no medically approved cure.<br> From a rural dream house that now felt like a prison, Douthat’s search for help takes him off the map of official medicine, into territory where cranks and conspiracies abound and patients are forced to take control of their own treatment and experiment on themselves. Slowly, against his instincts and assumptions, he realizes that many of the cranks and weirdos are right, that many supposed “hypochondriacs” are victims of an indifferent medical establishment, and that all kinds of unexpected experiences and revelations lurk beneath the surface of normal existence, in the places underneath.<br> The Deep Places is a story about what happens when you are terribly sick and realize that even the doctors who are willing to treat you can only do so much. Along the way, Douthat describes his struggle back toward health with wit and candor, portraying sickness as the most terrible of gifts. It teaches you to appreciate the grace of ordinary life by taking that life away from you. It reveals the deep strangeness of the world, the possibility that the reasonable people might be wrong, and the necessity of figuring out things for yourself. And it proves, day by dreadful day, that you are stronger than you ever imagined, and that even in the depths there is always hope."<ref name="penguin"/> == Awards == *2021, New York Times Editor's Choice<ref name="penguin">{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646761/the-deep-places-by-ross-douthat/ | title = The Deep Places by Ross Douthat: 9780593237366 | website = Penguin Random House|access-date=2022-03-27}}</ref> == Notable book reviews== *October 17, 2021, [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-lesson-of-a-long-illness-on-ross-douthats-the-deep-places/ The Lesson of a Long Illness: On Ross Douthat’s “The Deep Places”] - Paul W. Gleason, LA Review of Books ==Links== *[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646761/the-deep-places-by-ross-douthat/ Penguin Random House] ==See also == *[[Chronic Lyme disease]] *[[Contested illness]] ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Books]] [[Category:English books]] [[Category:Memoir books]] [[Category:Audiobooks]]
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