LaurelBooks

One of the many underserved populations that CKP CavanKerry serves is that of people living with illness and disability. When ‘everyday life’ involves living with chronic illness, the emotional and psychological issues become more urgent and complicated. With that in mind, CavanKerry publishes LaurelBooks: The Literature of Illness and Disability, dedicated to the literary exploration of the ‘lived experience’ of illness — the complex and intense emotions associated with the confrontation of chronic, life threatening illness and its effects on self, family, marriage, and work.

The press’s sixteen published LaurelBooks deal with childhood leukemia, multiple sclerosis, lymphoma, bone marrow transport, cerebral hemorrhage, infertility, emotional dysfunction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Ewing’s sarcoma, schizophrenia, the death of a spouse, and a historic portrait of hospital incarceration in the early 20th century.