" ... powerful, tender and humorous memoir about resiliency and love in the face of cancer. Mirriam-Goldberg braves breast cancer, the breast cancer genetic mutation and the loss of a parent by connecting with an eclectic Midwest community, the land and sky, and a body undergoing vast renovation"--Cover, inside flap.
Contents
Preface: Singing the body electric -- Getting lost -- Like falling in a big vat of butter -- Divining for doctors and Dharma -- The impossible gaze -- The facts of life -- Chemopause -- Atrophy -- The new land -- Breastless -- Sky -- Epilogue: Happy anniversary, darling!