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**A Best Book of 2022 - USA TODAY** "**Astute, compassionate and lethally funny. Maloney is an exceptionally alert writer on whom nothing is lost, who sees everything with excruciating clarity.**" **—****Sarah Manguso, __The New York Times__** **The searing intimacy of __Girl, Interrupted__ combines with the uncomfortable truths of __The Empathy Exams__ in a collection of essays chronicling one woman's experiences as both patient and caregiver, giving a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital bed.** __What does it cost to live?__ When we fall ill, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents, breast cancers, blood diseases, and dark depressions. When Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only cost a great deal personally, but also financially, sending her down a dark spiral of misdiagnoses, years spent in and out of hospitals and doctor's offices, and tens of thousands owed in medical debt. To work to pay off this crippling burden, Emily becomes an emergency room technic

Who reads Cost of Living : Essays?

Author

Emily Maloney

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250213310

Category

nonfiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (104 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14