Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. It started with an itch-first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter "the real world." She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. Jaouad's insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us."- The Washington Post Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown."-Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review "I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Rumpus, Library Journal
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