"An important investigation of a little-understood illness with much to 
teach doctors and patients alike. General readers will find her personal 
story compelling as well as beautifully told."—Lynne Sharon Schwartz, 
author of The Fatigue Artist

"Carefully researched and documented, Encounters with the Invisible 
takes the reader on a sweeping journey of a life, although the story 
rarely leaves Ms. Wall's bedroom."—K. Kimberly McCleary, President, 
Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of 
America

Blending personal drama with literary reflection, reportage, and 
medical history, Dorothy Wall illuminates the conflicts and 
controversies surrounding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and graphically 
depicts the way a virus resculpts a life.

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DOROTHY WALL is coauthor of Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide
to Creative Fiction. Her essays and poems have appeared in such 
venues as Witness, Sonora Review, Prairie Schooner, and Under the 
Sun. She is a writing consultant in Berkeley, California.


Medical Humanities Series, Thomas Mayo, series editor


What people are saying about this book

"A heartfelt book about life-changing illness."—Floyd Skloot, author of 
In the Shadow of Memory