THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM Reimagining Chronic Illness

Meghan O'Rourke narrates her harrowing account of spending years trying to find a diagnosis for her chronic illness. She takes listeners through a multitude of medical appointments, experimental procedures, and tests. The decades-long process sounds exhausting, and O'Rourke makes it clear to listeners that it was. By delivering her own memoir, she captures the emotional pain, the uncertainty of the seeming void of her future, and the joy of finally becoming healthy enough to have children. Reliving all of those moments must have been painful, but hearing those emotions make this experience much more real and effective than it would have been even in the hands of a gifted professional narrator. A.R.F. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2022]