"Cover Me is wise, irreverent, honest, and utterly compelling. Who would have thought a memoir about a young mother's struggle to survive without health insurance could be funny, but Sonya Huber finds unexpected truth and gentle comedy in every bizarre corner of this insane labyrinth we call our healthcare system. Huber knows this story from all angles activist, patient, deadbeat, and journalist and it shows. As America continues to debate the system we have versus the system we need, this will be an important book."
-- Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
- Forthcoming Spring 2010 from University of Nebraska Press, Class in America Series, ed. Jeffrey Di Leo
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The sheer, jet-propelled energy of this memoir elevates it into a tour de force. I found it by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. This urgent and compelling memoir is lyrically lush and beautifully rendered.
--Sue William Silverman, author of Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir
"Timely, passionate, informative, and moving, Sonya Huber's Cover Me is a scathing memoir of an uninsured young mother's encounter with health care in America. Balancing humor and outrage, personal experience and careful documentation, empathy and frustration, it testifies to the deep lack of fairness, decency, and humanity at the empty heart of our nation's system of medical care."
--Floyd Skloot, author of In the Shadow of Memory and The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life