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Jennifer Traig, Well Enough Alone
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Wednesday July 16, 2008 (7:30pm)
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Both a history of hypochondria and a memoir of living with it, Jennifer Traig's Well Enough Alone limns the ridiculous and debilitating extremes of fearing for one's own health. While evaluating her own symptoms, Traig uncovers a rogues gallery of bizarre diagnoses (Foreign Accent Syndrome, for instance) that provides plenty of laughs, but little comfort. Once she confirms her own hypochondria, Traig tries to make sense of her condition through a no-less-strange array of historical anecdotes. That Traig is so empathetic speaks to the quality of her prose, as well as the increasing number of health risks that haunt day-to-day life.
