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In this powerful debut, Rebecca Dimyan details her experience with endometriosis, a chronic disease which effects one in ten women worldwide. This painful condition takes an average of seven years to be diagnosed and has no proven cure. Most women will undergo multiple surgeries, take countless painkillers and other drugs, and will still endure regular pain and other complications. With honesty, vulnerability, and sometimes humor, Dimyan explores the ways the condition has impacted her experiences, her body, her pain, and her joy. She takes her audience on an emotional journey through her teenage years, early twenties, and into her thirties as she becomes a professional woman, wife, and mother. Dimyan blends research, anecdotes, and advice as she shares the relief she's found through alternative treatments and holistic medicine. Chronic isn't just a story about one woman's illness--it is a memoir about all the pain, pleasure, heartbreak, friendship, love, and hope she experiences on her path to healing.

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Rebecca Dimyan is an award-winning writer whose nonfiction essays and short fiction have appeared in national and international print and online publications including Vox, Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, xoJane, The Mighty, 34th Parallel, and many others. Her debut novel, Waiting for Beirut, was a finalist for the Fairfield Book Prize. Rebecca teaches writing at several colleges in Connecticut. She is a writer, editor, teacher, and conference director. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Devon Sorvari has traveled extensively across the country, performing in everything from Shakespeare and musical theater to Gilmore Girls and a Hellraiser movie. Her audiobooks have earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and an Audie Award nomination. With over sixty titles to her name, she specializes in fiction-particularly young adult-and has a passion for conveying the raw emotional pitfalls and triumphs of each character.

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