Description

A superbly created and darkly humorous trip through the planet of the allergic. Like twelve thousand additional Americans, Sandra Beasley is affected with food allergies. Her allergies—severe and lifelong—include milk, soy, egg, meat, shrimp, pine nuts, cucumbers, cantaloupe, honeydew, apple, macadamias, pistachios, cashews, swordfish, and mustard. Increase that mildew, dirt, grass and shrub pollen, tobacco smoke, puppies, rabbits, horses, and wool, and it’s no surprise Sandra thought she'd to reside her life as “Allergy Girl.” When butter is life-threatening and eggs could make your neck swell closed, cookies and other goodies of youth are from the question—and therefore Sandra’s mom used to alert visitors against a poisonous, icing-tinged hug with “Don’t destroy the birthday lady!” It might seem that this type of person is “not truly made to endure,” as you dull nutritionist announced while browsing Sandra’s fourth-grade course. But Sandra hasn't just lasted, she’s thrived—now an essayist, publisher, and award winning poet, she's learned to understand a global by which risk may lurk within an humble corn processor.