Between Two Kingdoms

Susu takes you through the worst life can offer you and how she manages to come out of it with courage and a lot of luck

This is a book, I will always turn to..for the language, for being authentic and the inspiration this powerful woman, Suleika, is.

What a wonderful book, written with a lot of courage, honesty and love. Cancer is not an easy subject to share, but the author did it with ease and I would read anything she writes!

Heart-touching and sincere. It's been a while since I read a book that touched my soul like this one. It's introspective, full of real-life wisdom, and inspiring at the same time. I cried, smiled, and dreamed thinking of what Suleika wrote and lived. It's a book I will share for sure.

I used to work for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust and met many families and patients waiting for transplants. My own daughter had a heart /lung transplant. I just wish I had read this book before I started work with ANBMT and then a mum of a transplant daughter.This book should be on prescription along with the medication.The honesty and reality of the author's situation is described in such a way that it doesn't make you cry but think...and for me that was a powerful revelation, not just thinking... but thinking differently about a person's future life and recovery.Everyone, at some point, will come across a person, or be that person in the throes of a life threatening condition.If they have read this book then they will have a better understanding of how to deal with it. Please read this book for everyone's sake

An amazing memoir, thought provoking, inspiring, full of insights. I highly recommended to anyone looking for motivation on how to live a richer life.

I felt like I had a fairly good idea what to expect, and this book is so much more.I participate in Suleika’s Isolation Journals project, so I was familiar with both her story and with her writing (via the regular journaling prompts she provides). Over the past year I have participated in a dozen teleconferences that Suleika facilitated. She is always warm, thoughtful and graceful. She has shared bits and pieces of the revision process and her excitement over the upcoming publication, but I never felt coerced or intimidated into buying the book. I bought it as a show of support, not really knowing when I would get around to reading it.Ironically, the book arrived when I was quite ill. I didn’t have the energy to do much besides read, and I polished it off in a couple of days.I think it’s usually a compliment to the author if you can say that you wish the book were longer. I found the entire thing absolutely riveting, but I do wish Suleika had shared more of her encounters on her cross country road trip. The book is every bit as much about her re-entry into “normal” life, as it is a raw and harrowing description of her cancer battle.It is also noteworthy that Suleika was lucky enough to have the best care, being treated at Sloan Kettering. Money never seems to be an issue. Also she is well enough to travel. Her disease, though devastating and with quite a few setbacks, follows a trajectory of getting better.Suleika’s depiction of her relationship with her boy friend Will, her primary caregiver throughout most of her treatment, is honest and forthright. Obviously there are a lot of stresses, particularly since the relationship was relatively new at the time of her diagnosis. Suleika freely admits that Will was selfless and giving in many ways (not perfect), and she was not always rational or sensitive in the way she treated him. Spoiler alert: the relationship doesn’t survive. I do wish Suleika had provided an update on how she thinks of that relationship now. It would be lovely to hear that she and Will have found a way to be friends.This is a great piece of writing, one of the most compelling memoirs ever. I can’t wait to find out what Suleika does next.