The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis by Emma Bolden

The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis

Emma Bolden

368 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Description

For readers of Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire and Porochista Khakpour’s Sick, this exquisitely wrought debut memoir recounts a lifelong struggle with chronic pain and endometriosis, while speaking more broadly to anyone who’s been told “it’s all...

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Moods

emotional 91%
reflective 66%
challenging 58%
sad 41%
dark 33%
informative 25%
tense 16%
hopeful 8%
inspiring 8%

Pace

medium 90%
slow 9%

Average rating

4.53

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