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Author Mirriam-Goldberg, Caryn.

Title The sky begins at your feet : a memoir on cancer, community, and coming home to the body / Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg.

Imprint North Liberty, IA : Ice Cube Press, ©2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Mirriam-Goldberg  811.54 M679Bm 2009    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 229 pages ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Summary " ... 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!
Subject Mirriam-Goldberg, Caryn.
Breast cancer patients' writings, American.
Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.
Body image -- Biography.
Parents -- Death -- Biography.
Body image. (OCoLC)fst00835344
Breast cancer patients' writings, American. (OCoLC)fst00838358
Cancer -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00845411
Parents -- Death. (OCoLC)fst01053458
Genre/Form Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
ISBN 9781888160437 (pbk.)
1888160438 (pbk.)

 
    
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