{"product_id":"theres-a-cure-for-this-a-memoir","title":"There's a Cure For This: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I don't know why medicine felt like coming home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ebut, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking about\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ehow the tohu, once awarded, can never be taken back.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere are few things in life that emphatic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetter not fuck it up.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFrom award-winning writer Dr Emma Espiner comes this striking and profound debut memoir.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Encompassing whanau, love, death, '90s action movies and scarfie drinking, \u003ci\u003eThere's a cure for this\u003c\/i\u003e is Espiner's own story, from a childhood spent shuttling between a 'purple lesbian state house and a series of man-alone rentals' to navigating parenthood on her own terms; from the quietly perceived inequities of her early life to hard-won revelations as a Maori medical student and junior doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Clear, irreverent and beautiful, this book offers a candid and moving examination of what it means to be human when it seems like nothing less than superhuman will do.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e'Deadly serious, darkly funny. An exploration of hurt and healing, love and loss, life and death, motherhood and medicine. Espiner's frank account of finding her vocation as a Maori doctor is so precise it cuts bone deep. A controlled and fearless narrator of the visceral facts of our shared humanity and the various kinds of suffering science is no match for - including, at times, her own - she takes us to the heart of what tears us apart and shows us how to put ourselves back together again.'\u003c\/i\u003e - NOELLE McCARTHY\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Gutsy, fierce, reflective. Dr Emma Espiner tells compelling stories about finding and then making her own path - as a modern Maori woman; a descendant, mother, friend and partner; a doctor of medicine. She does not skip over the twists and turns . . . her insights are both useful and at times provocative.'\u003c\/i\u003e - DR HINEMOA ELDER\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter titles-\u003cbr\u003e Pepeha\u003cbr\u003e Sweet llamas in the night\u003cbr\u003e Return to Castle Wolfenstein\u003cbr\u003e He was the author of his own demise\u003cbr\u003e I am going to demonstrate empathy now\u003cbr\u003e Please explain the gaps in your CV\u003cbr\u003e Maori doctor\u003cbr\u003e Colonising the coloniser\u003cbr\u003e Don't plant a fruit tree over your uterus\u003cbr\u003e Tangi on State Highway 1\u003cbr\u003e 'E korero ana ahau i te reo Maori anake Mama'\u003cbr\u003e She had an epiphany on a beach in Northland\u003cbr\u003e The end of the beginning\u003cbr\u003e Practical skills for the zombie apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e How not to sit an exam\u003cbr\u003e Storytelling is the medicine\u003cbr\u003e Whakawatea","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43581628186821,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/There_s_20a_20Cure_20for_20this.jpg?v=1716562219","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/theres-a-cure-for-this-a-memoir","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}