“It happened quickly, an inverse magician's trick: now you don't see it, now you do.” This is how Sinéad Gleeson's body announced itself to her when she was 13 years old, as she describes in Blue Hills and Chalk Bones, the opening essay in her debut collection of prose and poetry Constellations: Reflections from Life. Her previously normal, active life was consumed by pain emanating from her left hip. The eventual diagnosis was monoarticular arthritis, but getting to that point took some time, and finding actual relief from the condition even longer.
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