# @deadinkbooks on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BvMrtl5AxPG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19238840-deadinkbooks-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-03-19T17:24:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dead Ink Books (@deadinkbooks) — https://gondola.cc/deadinkbooks

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Karen Havelin’s Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is a life told in reverse and a subversion of what we expect from stories of illness. Having been diagnosed with endometriosis in her twenties, we follow Laura Fjellstad in her struggle to live a normal life across New York, Paris and Oslo, fueled by her belief that to survive her chronic illness she must be completely self-reliant.

Flowing backwards from 2016 to 1995, we meet Laura’s younger selves: her healthier selves. Laura as a daughter, a figure skater, a lover, and a mother—finally leading a life her own teenage self would be in awe of.

To be devoured intensely in one sitting, Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is a remarkable debut novel with bracing emotional insights and piercing descriptions of pain that linger in one’s mind long after the last page. It is also a beguiling meditation on relationships, motherhood, sexuality, pain and the limitations of our own bodies.

Available to pre-order now, link in bio. 
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debutfiction, endometriosisawareness, chronicpain, endometriosis, bookstagram, endometriosisawarenessmonth, pleasereadthisleafletcarefully, newfiction, chronicillness, womenshealth, pleasereadthis, books, endo

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