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Chloe Green, Lecturer in English, Australian National University

‘What is it about shaking that’s so disempowering?’ A memoir of a lifelong tremor dissects modern medicine and an uncertain world

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In this gripping new memoir by New South Wales journalist and author Sonya Voumard, a rare neurological condition becomes a way to examine the unpredictability of life.

How to tell the story of an illness without a metaphorical framework to decode it, without medical understanding or widespread cultural recognition? How to tell the story of an ill life without a clear beginning, middle, or end?

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