Sublime

precocious.

To have a poorly understood disease is to be brought up against every flaw in the U.S. health care system; to collide with the structural problems of a late-capitalist society that values productivity more than health; and to confront the philosophical problem of conveying an experience that lacks an accepted framework.

generic, though gendered, Native.

Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.

To Michelle Kane. I can never thank you enough for introducing me to the term “refresh blister” and for caring as much about this book as I do.