I was mixed for a moment about this-it’s a lot to imagine your face at book stores and all over the internet for ages to come, but especially your face associated with a word like “sick!” Then it seemed to make sense to me, when I remembered how many selfies-before they were called “selfies!”-I had taken during my sickest years. Do you do some play on Lyme? (At one point a lime green cover was an option to which I yelped, please no!) Hospital paraphernalia? Meds? Doctors? The one thing the team at HarperPerennial seemed to have decided early on was that it would feature a photo of me. This book would definitely be unlike other books I have written or would write. But for this third book of mine, Sick: A Memoir, we had a real dilemma on my hands. On my second novel, for the hardcover, I even got my friend the renowned Iranian artist Ali Banisadr to give us a detail from a mural for the cover. With both my first and second books we went back and forth a lot on the covers-there was a lot of input from me.
On some level a book is an art object and I love buying beautiful books in hardcover just like I’d by art. Covers have always been very important to me.
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