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   An award-winning memoir, Amy Silverstein’s Sick Girl garnered tremendous attention, inspired rave reviews, generated impressive sales, and spurred important debate about chronic illness after its 2007 release. Amy became an active patient advocate and speaker on resilience and patient self-advocacy.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Amy_SilversteinAmy Silverstein - Wikipedia

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   Amy Jill Silverstein (née Shorin; June 3, 1963 – May 5, 2023) was an American writer. The author of the memoirs Sick Girl and My Glory Was I Had Such Friends, in addition to magazine articles and essays, she had two heart transplants.

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   Oct 1, 2008 · In her compelling memoir, Sick Girl, Amy delivers a searing insight into the battle to stay alive. And yet, there is also love and humor, and a radiant courage." "Silverstein is an inspired storyteller. Her engaging language and sharp insight make Sick Girl both compelling and moving.

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2023/05/16 › booksAmy Silverstein, Who Chronicled a Life of Three Hearts, Dies ...

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   May 16, 2023 · Amy Silverstein, a celebrated writer whose two memoirs, including “Sick Girl,” from 2007, recounted her grueling yet joyous odyssey through a life that required two heart transplants, died on...

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   Sep 10, 2007 · At just twenty-four, Amy Silverstein was your typical type-A law student: smart, driven, and highly competitive. With a budding romance and a heavy academic schedule, Silverstein did not have time for illness even one that caused her to black out and suffer temporary blindness.

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   Sep 10, 2007 · Amy chronicles her harrowing medical journey from the first misdiagnosis to her astonishing recovery after her heart transplant, which is made all the more dramatic by the romantic bedside courtship with her future husband, and her uncompromising desire to become a mother.

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   Is Silverstein a sick girl?

   • Told she is a “sick girl” by her physician, Silverstein makes every effort to live as a “normal” person, despite a precarious state of survival as well as must-take, toxic immunosuppressive medicines that keep her body from attacking her new heart.

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   Who is Amy Silverstein?

   • Amy Silverstein is the author of the new book, MY GLORY WAS I HAD SUCH FRENDS (June, 2017, HarperCollins)—an intimate celebration of the power of women's friendship—as well as the highly acclaimed memoir Sick Girl, (2007, Grove Atlantic) a courageous, unforgettable self-portrait and riveting account of the quest to survive against all odds.

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   Did Amy Silverstein die?

   • A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: Amy Silverstein, Who Chronicled A Life of Three Hearts, Dies at 59. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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   How did Elizabeth Silverstein die?

   • She was 59. Her husband, Scott Silverstein, confirmed her death but did not say where she died. The cause was cancer, which Ms. Silverstein had attributed to decades of post-transplant medications. She lived in Chappaqua, N.Y. Hers was a death foretold — by Ms. Silverstein herself — in an Opinion essay published in The New York Times on April 18.

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    Oct 13, 2008 · With a grace and force reminiscent of Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face or Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, Amy Silverstein—a surprisingly irreverent narrator—chronicles her harrowing medical journey from the first misdiagnosis to her astonishing and ongoing recovery.