Don’t Cure Me, the debut novel by Catherine Foulkrod, follows a young woman navigating a world where illness determines every aspect of life, from social status to where people are allowed to live. As doctors race toward a medical breakthrough and society reduces human worth to blood-test numbers, a group of outsiders begins to challenge the very foundations of the system. Inspired by the history of the autoimmune disorder thrombocytopenia, the novel examines illness, surveillance, gender, and the violence of measuring human value.
Don’t Cure Me will be published on January 26, 2027 by McSweeney’s and is available for preorder now.
Catherine Foulkrod is a writer based in Naples, Italy. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Believer, New York Tyrant, Unsaid, Bookforum, Forever Magazine, El Malpensante, and exhibition catalogs for Thomas Dane Gallery and Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin. She is also the co-founder and director of The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature of the Arts.
Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Don’t Cure Me, designed by Daniele Catellano, along with a Q&A with Foulkrod about its creation.
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