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Current Issue • Vol. XLVIII No. 1 • Invisible Cities |

The Disparate Heart

By Jacque Gorelick

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Jacque Gorelick’s essays on motherhood, health, and family have been published in Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, Salon, and more. Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home (Vine Leaves Press, 2026) is the story of a life upended by a medical crisis. Gorelick lives in California with her husband and two sons.

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