Cost of Living av Emily Maloney

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<p><b>A Best Book of 2022 - USA TODAY</b><br><b>Named one of the Chicago Public Library''s "Best Books of 2022"</b><br><br>¿<b>Astute, compassionate and lethally funny. Maloney is an exceptionally alert writer on whom nothing is lost, who sees everything with excruciating clarity.</b>¿ <b>¿</b><b>Sarah Manguso, <i>The New York Times </i></b><br><b><br>The searing intimacy of<i> Girl, Interrupted</i> combines with the uncomfortable truths of <i>The Empathy Exams</i> in a collection of essays chronicling one woman¿s experiences as both patient and caregiver, giving a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital bed.</b><br><br><i>What does it cost to live?</i><br><br> When we fall ill, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents, breast cancers, blood diseases, and dark depressions.<br><br> When Emily Maloney was nine