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Podcast: Behind the Mic With Kirkus Reviews
Episode: A DANGEROUSLY HIGH THRESHOLD FOR PAIN by Imani Perry, read by Imani Perry
Description: Listeners living with an autoimmune disease will feel heard, understood, and defended, perhaps for the first time, as they hear this short work from Imani Perry. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Kendra Winchester discuss this audiobook that gets to the core of what it’s like to live with a chronic condition, told in Princeton professor Imani Perry’s own voice and words. It's hard to imagine someone other than the author, who has lupus and Graves disease, narrating such a probing, purposeful exploration of her own life with these illnesses. Perry’s steady voice and carefully measured contempl...