A review by leighwitz
Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch

5.0

This is one of the most impactful books I have read in a long time. Michele Lent Hirsch's personal anecdotes and interviews made me feel so validated, and she provided just the right amount of scary-statistic-sharing with personal narrative. It's rare to find a book that's so inclusive of queer/trans/nonbinary women and WOC that's not specifically about these groups, so I was thrilled to see a wide range of perspectives included here. Some reviews note that much of the book is about short-term disease and that chronic illness could be included more, but I read this specifically because of my chronic illness and felt represented. This is a must-read to any woman living with illness--or really, who has ever been to a doctor.