Chronic Conditions

by Karen Engle

Imagine a house whose wiring is spliced and patchy with knob and tube, coiled like a serpent ready to strike and spark at any moment. Even if you have a fire trap behind your walls, the lights will turn on. In her memoir of a life lived in physical pain, Karen Engle asks whether and how language can capture what it's like to be in a body that appears to work from the outside, when its internal systems operate through an ad hoc assemblage of garbled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228016738
• ISBN13: 9780228016731
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 160 Pages