{"product_id":"body-weather-notes-on-chronic-illness-in-the-anthropocene-9780807017555","title":"Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This book doesn't offer easy answers, but it offers something better--a way of seeing our shared vulnerability as the starting point for understanding what's breaking and what still might be saved.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​\" --Esmé Weijun Wang, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Schizophrenias\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2024 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScience writer Lorraine Boissoneault has been in pain for most of her adult life. Unable to control or make sense of her chronic illness diagnoses, she began describing the ebb and flow of her symptoms as \"body weather.\" At first an imaginative approach to coping with flare-ups, the phrase has become a waypoint in Lorraine's explorations of the intimate relationship between our fragile bodies and the world around us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVisceral and poetic, these braided essays traverse science, history, and memoir to explore the interconnected relationships between the human body and Earth's meteorology--two chaotic systems that inform every cell of our beings. Boissoneault surveys her own \"body weather,\" relating her dysregulated thyroid to global temperature fluctuations; her arrhythmic heart to chaotic thunderstorms; her inflamed joints to wildfires beyond control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBody Weather\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical exploration that reimagines the cloudy stages of grief and challenges us to reexamine universal questions lodged deep within: how do we find comfort and meaning in a fevered world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorraine Boissoneault\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 5.99w x 1.19d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807017555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2026 pg. 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorraine Boissoneault\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and journalist covering science, history, travel, and current events. Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Voyageurs\u003c\/i\u003e, Boissoneault has previously been a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and an editor for The Weather Channel. Her work has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAudubon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other outlets.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lorraine Boissoneault \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47876554850461,"sku":"9780807017555","price":47.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_165d29a8-9b0f-4900-9c9a-1d8aaacf218e.jpg?v=1777381612","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/body-weather-notes-on-chronic-illness-in-the-anthropocene-9780807017555","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}