Name: Cost of Living
ISBN: 9781250213297

Emily Maloney

Girl, Interrupted meets The Empathy Exams in Emily Maloney's Cost of Living, a memoir chronicling one woman's experiences as both patient and caregiver, giving a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital bed...

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Cost of Living

Samantha Kalany Hughes

** spoiler alert **
           First of all I just wanted to thank Henry Holt Publishing and Emily Maloney for early access to this wonderful book. 

One word, or rather, one hyphenated word... This book was thought-provoking. 

This collection of essays details the extreme disorder that the United States' healthcare system exhibits and that all of us are living through. The Cost of Living is incredibly expensive, and sometimes viewed as not worth it, which is where the author, Emily Maloney kicks this book off at with her suicidal feelings of neglect for herself -- which in turn just bit her in the butt because the cost of that medical treatment was worth tens of thousands of dollars that would literally years for her to pay off. 

Americans are literally dying, starving for pain relief or a fix from their general physician and hold off on receiving such care, because they don't have insurance or likely can't afford the medical bills that are likely to stack up over the course of a couple months. Or perhaps, set up by their doctors and nurses to alleviate pain, patients become addicted to opioids which spirals them down a different and more abusive rabbit hole that they can't pick themselves up from. It's a twisted cycle that we are all a product of, unfortunately. 

Emily Maloney's personified narrative was both witty and informative, looking into the eyes of a system that continues to fail us, time and time again. 

5/5 I absolutely recommend. 


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