Still Moving
~ a memoir of the first 3 years of Long Covid ~
“Sensitive and revealing…
Skyeris’ writing is clear, authentic, and deeply human throughout, often expressing her ideas and reactions in emotionally charged sentences that convey the intensity and confusion of the pandemic era. A searing, deeply personal memoir of chronic illness.”
– Kirkus Reviews
full review here (contains spoilers)
“Still Moving makes a powerful case for facing uncomfortable truths when few traces of the COVID era have made it to popular culture. “Self-help,” diagnostic, and other kinds of books about Long Covid are entering a market that is struggling against the world’s collective decision to push the pandemic out of sight and out of mind. Skyeris connects this to a long history of dismissal and deliberate blindness to other forms of disability and chronic illnesses. The author explores every facet of the world’s reaction to the disease and chronic sufferers, taking on toxic positivity as well as general discomfort towards a problem that seems to have no end in sight.
A poetic memoir, Still Moving documents Skyeris’s struggles with Long Covid, tackling the difficult subjects of disability, ideation, and depression with sensitivity and grace. It provides valuable insight on how to support loved ones suffering from all kinds of chronic illnesses.”
– Sakina Hassan for IndieReader
4.5 stars - full review here
“This is a beautifully honest and thought-provoking account of the physical and mental struggles of living with a long term chronic illness such as Long Covid; the uncertainty for the future, the feeling of being isolated from the world, and the sheer depths to which we can fall whilst suffering. This memoir embraces and accepts all of the dark, and yet still allows the light to shine through.”
– Jackie Baxter, Long Covid Podcast
The screenshot of the comment is the author’s response to a review on Reedsy.
The review is not shared on this page because the review is very triggering. If you have trauma from people denying or invalidating your experiences, this might not be a good thing to read.
If you've had the good fortune and privilege not to have momentous life experiences invalidated or denied, the review could be a useful read. This is how disbelieving and condescending people can be—they can know vivid, graphic details, and somehow still conclude that a person doesn't know her own lived experience.
Full review here.
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For readers outside the US:
Still Moving is distributed via regional online platforms,
including Apagea, Booktopia, BibliU, Scribd, and a few dozen more.
All the Amazons should have the book as well.
book cover design by Hazel Lam
photos by Emerald Dove Photography