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Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn’t worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view of the matter was quite different. Huber’s irreverent and affecting memoir of navigating the nation’s health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and propaganda surrounding health-care reform. “I look like any other upwardly mobile hipster,” Huber says. “I carry a messenger bag, a few master’s degrees, and a toddler raised on organic milk.
About the Author
Sonya Huber is an associate professor of creative writing at Fairfield University and director of the low-residency MFA program at Fairfield. She's the author of five books, including the creative nonfiction works Opa Nobody and Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, as well as the forthcoming Pain Woman Takes Your Keys: Essays on Pain and Imagination (all from University of Nebraska Press) . Other nonfiction books include The Evolution of Hillary Clinton (Squint 2016) and a textbook, The Backwards Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration (Equinox) . Her literary work has appeared in journals including Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, River Teeth, Crab Orchard Review, Fourth Genre, Passages North, Kaleidoscope, Hotel Amerika and others. She has also published work in periodicals including The New York Times (online) , O: The Oprah Magazine, Salon.com, The Washington Post Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Psychology Today, In These Times, Sojourner, and Earth Island Journal, and other outlets. More information available at http://www.sonyahuber.com.
