This book begins with the story of Carla Reed, who is thirty years old and works as a teacher in Massachusetts. On May 19, 2004, Carla wakes up with a severe headache which she describes as "a sort of numbness in my head. The kind of numbness that instantly tells you that something is terribly wrong".
Which book?
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Siddhartha Mukherjee's
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer which won him a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction.