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The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir

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"Manguso has produced a remarkable, clear-eyed account that turns horror into something humane and beautiful."—The New York Times Book Review

A book of tremendous grace and self-awareness, Sarah Manguso's The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be.

The events that began in 1995 might keep happening to me as long as things can happen to me. Think of deep space, through which heavenly bodies fly forever. They fly until they change into new form...