Inside the Mind Behind Terms & Conditions: Amy Goldmacher Reveals the Untold Story of Her Memoir
MF: As someone whose loved ones are living with chronic conditions, your anxieties regarding your genetic mutation really spoke to me. How do you hope this book adds to our understanding of the illness narrative?
AG: The idea of liminality was really appealing to me in the early stages of writing this book, because it’s a concept that can be wrestled with anthropologically speaking, and because it spoke to me in real life because I was in between the first half of my life and the second half of my life. I was in between having an illness and not having an illness. I feel like a lot of people are caught in these in-betweens, in between one thing and another or one phase and another. I wanted to bring that to light a little bit for people who might be navigating an in-between space where they’re not one thing and not the other either. When there’s not a space for you, you often feel invisible. People who, like me, have the risk but not the illness, may feel like there are no resources for them or that they don’t fit in the category of the sick or the well, and I wanted people to know they are not alone.
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