You''ve Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir

From the award-winning author of I Knew Youd Be Lovely comes an empowering and disarmingly funny memoir about grief and illnessand the wit and wisdom it takes to survive it.

As a child, Alethea Black drifts between her father, a brilliant mathematician who is also her best friend, and her mother, a frank and outspoken woman on fire. After her fathers death, Alethea is left unmoored, a young woman more connected to lifes ethereal mysteries than to practical things such as doing laundry or paying taxes.

And then, just when life seems to be getting back on track, shes suddenly racked by crushing fatigue, inexplicable pain, and memory loss. With her grasp on reality fading, and specialist after specialist declaring nothing is wrong, Alethea turns to her own research and desperate home remedies. But even as her frantic quest for wellness seems to lead to confusion and despair, she discovers more about her own strength than she ever could have imaginedand becomes a woman on fire herself.