March 9th kicked off Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, and as any reader knows, one great way to raise awareness of a disability is to read a book with a main character who has said condition, written by an author who shares it. This week we’re highlighting So Lucky by Nicola Griffith, a psychological thriller that released back in 2018 and won the Washington State Book Award. (You can read more about the book and Griffith’s interviews here.) 

Mara Tagarelli is on top of her world. She’s the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation, an accomplished martial artist, and happily married. Then, in the space of a week, her wife leaves her, she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and she loses her job.

Mara has never met a problem she can’t solve—until suddenly she can’t solve any of them. Everything begins to feel like a threat. At first, she thinks it’s just her newfound sense of vulnerability. Then she realizes the threat of violence is real, deadly, and imminent.

But how do you defend yourself when you can’t trust your own body? How do you face down danger when others believe you are helpless, yet you know monsters are coming? This will be a fight unlike any Mara has faced before.

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