Caput Nili: How I Won the War and Lost My Taste for Oranges

Lisa Gill

Caput Nili: How I Won the War and Lost My Taste for Oranges by Lisa Gill

This is the true story of what happened when Lisa Gill threatened to hold up an MRI clinic in 2003. Using poetry, prose, and art, her memoir takes a powerful look at both personal and institutionalized violence and explores how a hard-won medical diagnosis left her searching to understand the history of violence in her life and its consequences for her health.

Anyone who has ever been ignored, discounted, invalidated, categorized into silence will love this book, and that’s just part of its intended audience. Gill’s journey through the dark forest of our healthcare system is by turns harrowing and hilarious, a must-read for anyone interested in resilience and the capacity of the human spirit to survive.

Profoundly illustrated by Kris Mills.

7½ x 9¾ inches • 144 pages • ISBN 978-0-9826968-5-9 • $16.95