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A memoir of suffering and salvation elevated by its heroine/narrator. In 1950, Chun's graduate-school career was cut short when she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, an incurable autoimmune disorder that causes the body to attack itself. The author spent the next 50 years trying to be a model wife and mother while plagued by bouts of disabling pain and fatigue. For this book, Chun draws on the 53 volumes of journals she kept for 50-plus years, which provide a minute-by-minute record of the progress of her life and illness. Her account is less self-help and more memoir, but readers are...

"My main purpose in writing this book has been to share my experiences and triumphs with my fellow victims of rheumatoid arthritis. We don't have to be ashamed or embarrassed just because we have rheumatoid arthritis. The disease is not a crime or sin. It does, however, sentence us to life imprisonment. But there are ways to parole ourselves from this prison. Together we can combat this terrible disease with phenomenal results. I am living proof. Am I so different? Don't we all in the end have to learn patience and more patience, discipline and tenacity? My advice couldn't be simpler: 'Think...