{"product_id":"body-weather-lorraine-boissoneault-9780807017555","title":"Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award: \"A singular work of literary reportage, a firsthand, intimate account drawing profound connections between the body and the planet\"\u003c\/b\u003e \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 fragile world around us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn visceral and poetic prose, \u003ci\u003e Body Weather\u003c\/i\u003e traverses science, history, memoir, medicine, and time to explore the interconnected relationship between the human body and Earth's meteorology--two chaotic systems that inform every cell of our beings. Boissoneault relates her dysregulated thyroid to fluctuations in global temperature; her retroverted uterus and frequent UTIs to catastrophic floods; her inflamed joints to wildfires beyond control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReimagining the cloudy stages of grief, \u003ci\u003eBody Weather\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807017558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807017555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Lorraine Boissoneault","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47201156301055,"sku":"9780807017555","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_73f03fbb-09fc-4278-97f3-b98ea5dd198e.jpg?v=1756789043","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/body-weather-lorraine-boissoneault-9780807017555","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}