Author has previously published a novella—winner of the Miami University Press novella contest—and has been widely published in Guernica, Electric Literature, Joyland, Georgia Review, New England Review, and elsewhere Strong blurbs from major writers Hanif Abdurraqib, Elissa Washuta, Maggie Smith, Lucas Mann, Justin Taylor, and Sam Sacks, editor at the Wall Street Journal The memoir’s engagement with Meniere’s Disease, chronic illness, hearing loss, disability, grief, and healing, as well as navigating the U.S. health care systems, in addition to its historical research into Beethoven and Jonathan Swift—who likely suffered from undiagnosed Meniere’s Disease—will appeal to a wide and eager audience According to the CDC, 6 in 10 adults suffer from chronic illness, and 4 in 10 adults have two or more chronic diseases; Cotter’s accessible and unsentimental approach to his experience navigating illness, a changing body, and the health caresystem will resonate with a wide readership