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The book of a generation: a transformative look at chronic illness and autoimmune disease-from one of the country's most respected writers. Drawing on her own medical experience as well as fifteen years of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, Meghan O'Rourke's incisive new work speaks to an urgent subject: the epidemic scale of autoimmune disease in America-even greater with the advent of "Long Covid"-and where we go from here. Blending lyricism, erudition, candor, and empathy, O'Rourke reveals crucial, subtle complexities about the American struggle with chronic illness and autoimmune conditions, and offers new reasons for hope, as well as a new framework for thinking about infectious disease and autoimmune response going forward. Confronting everything from the challenges of diagnosis and treatment to the limitations posed by our traditional structures of medical care and the particular impact on various demographic populations, O'Rourke brings her deep and disparate talents and roles-critic, journalist, poet, teacher, and patient-together into one unified project, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier.
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Praise for The Invisible Kingdom:
An authentically original voice and, perhaps more startlingly, an authentically original perspective .The book is not only a memoir of her illness, but also a document of years of research. Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon, in The New York Times Book Review
The Invisible Kingdom is an important and powerful book in many ways, but perhaps its most valuable contribution is the way it articulates the loneliness and frustration of having symptoms that superficially resemble the pains and pressures of contemporary life in the United States while being much more severe. The Nation
[O Rourke] gives shape and color to the invisible life of patients whom society has failed. She offers hope for patient-driven change. Most important, she provides an account that many will be able to relate to a ray of light into those isolated cocoons of darkness that, at one time or another, may afflict us all. The Wall Street Journal
In this elegant fusion of memoir, reporting, and cultural history, O Rourke traces the development of modern Western medicine and takes aim at its limitations, advocating for a community-centric healthcare model that treats patients as people, not parts. At once a rigorous work of scholarship and a radical act of empathy, The Invisible Kingdom has the power to move mountains. Esquire
O Rourke boldly investigates the origin of her ills and possible cures. More crucially, she probes the cultural, psychological, and medical experiences of people with poorly understood or immune-mediated illnesses The Invisible Kingdom couldn t be more timely. The Boston Globe
"[A] personal and deeply moving exploration of life with chronic illness. . .[The Invisible Kingdom] may serve as an affirmation that people living with chronic illness are not alone. . . both moving and educational." Library Journal, STARRED review
A call to arms in the fight for compassionate healthcare The Invisible Kingdom is a medical detective story with the drama and style of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. O Rourke s book has ignited a necessary conversation, proving the pen to be as mighty as the stethoscope. Oprah Daily
Meghan O Rourke s book is a searing and thoroughly researched exploration of the pain and confusion that many [chronic illness sufferers] go through in their quest to have their health issues taken seriously by the medical establishment and, often, the world at large. Vogue
An affecting portrayal of how we view disease, experience illness, and search for healing. -Booklist, STARRED REVIEW
With a poet s sensibility, journalist s rigor, and patient s personal investment, O Rourke sheds light on the physical and mental toll of having a mysterious chronic illness Readers will be left in awe. -Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
The Invisible Kingdom is a vivid account of the lived experience of chronic illness. Meghan O Rourke exposes a system of thought in which people with poorly understood illnesses are dismissed and disbelieved, blamed for their own suffering, and left to take desperate risks in pursuit of treatment. Crucially, her perspective offers insight into how we can do better. Eula Biss, author of Having and Being Had
O Rourke s honest and insightful account of chronic pain is at once a page-turner and an education in cutting-edge science and the history of ideas. I couldn t put it down. Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project
In this urgent and beautifully written book, Meghan O'Rourke lays siege to one of the last taboos in medicine: the chronic illnesses that govern the daily lives of millions of people, but are rarely acknowledged. As we confront the long-term impacts of COVID-19, O Rourke s lyrical analysis couldn't come at a better time. Michael Specter, New Yorker staff writer and author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
With impressive clarity and depth, O Rourke explores the failure of current biological science to identify the causes of numerous maladies or offer effective treatment, leaving a sufferer adrift. Bracing in its intelligence and remarkable in its sweep of both literary and medical scope, this book is essential reading for patients and medical professionals alike. Jerome Groopman MD, author of How Doctors Think
Emotionally compelling and intellectually rich." Kirkus
O Rourke is a poet above all else, and it s with incredible, lyrical empathy that she not only shares her own story of and eventual diagnosis with late-stage Lyme disease, but puts it in perspective of an entire generation of patients who ve been dismissed . . . A must read. Lithub
An authentically original voice and, perhaps more startlingly, an authentically original perspective .The book is not only a memoir of her illness, but also a document of years of research. Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon, in The New York Times Book Review
The Invisible Kingdom is an important and powerful book in many ways, but perhaps its most valuable contribution is the way it articulates the loneliness and frustration of having symptoms that superficially resemble the pains and pressures of contemporary life in the United States while being much more severe. The Nation
[O Rourke] gives shape and color to the invisible life of patients whom society has failed. She offers hope for patient-driven change. Most important, she provides an account that many will be able to relate to a ray of light into those isolated cocoons of darkness that, at one time or another, may afflict us all. The Wall Street Journal
In this elegant fusion of memoir, reporting, and cultural history, O Rourke traces the development of modern Western medicine and takes aim at its limitations, advocating for a community-centric healthcare model that treats patients as people, not parts. At once a rigorous work of scholarship and a radical act of empathy, The Invisible Kingdom has the power to move mountains. Esquire
O Rourke boldly investigates the origin of her ills and possible cures. More crucially, she probes the cultural, psychological, and medical experiences of people with poorly understood or immune-mediated illnesses The Invisible Kingdom couldn t be more timely. The Boston Globe
"[A] personal and deeply moving exploration of life with chronic illness. . .[The Invisible Kingdom] may serve as an affirmation that people living with chronic illness are not alone. . . both moving and educational." Library Journal, STARRED review
A call to arms in the fight for compassionate healthcare The Invisible Kingdom is a medical detective story with the drama and style of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. O Rourke s book has ignited a necessary conversation, proving the pen to be as mighty as the stethoscope. Oprah Daily
Meghan O Rourke s book is a searing and thoroughly researched exploration of the pain and confusion that many [chronic illness sufferers] go through in their quest to have their health issues taken seriously by the medical establishment and, often, the world at large. Vogue
An affecting portrayal of how we view disease, experience illness, and search for healing. -Booklist, STARRED REVIEW
With a poet s sensibility, journalist s rigor, and patient s personal investment, O Rourke sheds light on the physical and mental toll of having a mysterious chronic illness Readers will be left in awe. -Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
The Invisible Kingdom is a vivid account of the lived experience of chronic illness. Meghan O Rourke exposes a system of thought in which people with poorly understood illnesses are dismissed and disbelieved, blamed for their own suffering, and left to take desperate risks in pursuit of treatment. Crucially, her perspective offers insight into how we can do better. Eula Biss, author of Having and Being Had
O Rourke s honest and insightful account of chronic pain is at once a page-turner and an education in cutting-edge science and the history of ideas. I couldn t put it down. Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project
In this urgent and beautifully written book, Meghan O'Rourke lays siege to one of the last taboos in medicine: the chronic illnesses that govern the daily lives of millions of people, but are rarely acknowledged. As we confront the long-term impacts of COVID-19, O Rourke s lyrical analysis couldn't come at a better time. Michael Specter, New Yorker staff writer and author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
With impressive clarity and depth, O Rourke explores the failure of current biological science to identify the causes of numerous maladies or offer effective treatment, leaving a sufferer adrift. Bracing in its intelligence and remarkable in its sweep of both literary and medical scope, this book is essential reading for patients and medical professionals alike. Jerome Groopman MD, author of How Doctors Think
Emotionally compelling and intellectually rich." Kirkus
O Rourke is a poet above all else, and it s with incredible, lyrical empathy that she not only shares her own story of and eventual diagnosis with late-stage Lyme disease, but puts it in perspective of an entire generation of patients who ve been dismissed . . . A must read. Lithub