Cancer, I'll Give You One Year: A Non-Informative Guide to Breast Cancer: A Writer's Memoir, in Almost Real Time
Jennifer Spiegel, "Cancer, I'll Give You One Year: A Non-Informative Guide to Breast Cancer: A Writer's Memoir, in Almost Real Time"
English | ISBN: 1725255901 | 2020 | 188 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1725255901 | 2020 | 188 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Cancer, I'll Give You One Year: A Non-Informative Guide To Breast Cancer, A Writer's Memoir In Almost Real Timeis not about eating kale. The book is 100 percent narrative nonfiction and 0 percent self-help. It was actually written for the author's children in case she died. This sounds morbid, but maybe "pointed" and "candid" are better words. Embracing candor as an aesthetic, this real-time story hits upon the sacred, the profane, a trip to Epcot, a colonoscopy, her kids' responses to everything, and O. J. Simpson's parole hearing. Writing-centric, voice-driven, and conscious of a death sentence–no diets or exercises are offered, but the author may give horrible parenting advice. It's undoubtedly funny, but also a meditation on meaning.
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