What Doesn't Kill You

A raw and honest look at living with a chronic illness in modern day America and the wear and tear that comes with facing the bureaucratic terror of dealing with a medical system which is pretty much entirely subservient not to the best standard of care but to the whims of insurance providers.
This book also explores with a beautiful vulnerability the fact that illness doesn't happen in a vacuum, family tensions and shortcomings are still there and can even be further complicated by the sudden need to rely on or be relied on by someone with whom you already have a fraught relationship.
There is a lot of advice in there, some of it will be familiar if you've spent time in any kind of support group in the past 5 years but if you're just beginning a journey with chronic illness (be it your own or someone else's) you might find some very valuable insight.