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The Undying

By Anne Boyer

This episode explores the profound, often unacknowledged, human experience of severe illness, challenging the tidy narratives society constructs around sickness and survival.

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“This episode explores the profound, often unacknowledged, human experience of severe illness, challenging the tidy narratives society constructs around sickness and survival.”

— Anne Boyer, The Undying

What it is about

Illness, Societal Narratives, Human Experience

Who it is for

If you've ever felt the pressure to perform resilience in the face of hardship, or questioned the stories we tell about suffering, this will resonate, and this will help you see what to do next.

The author

Anne Boyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and essayist, brings a searing intellect and lived experience to her examination of illness, dissecting its personal and political dimensions with unflinching honesty.

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