Breast Cancer Memoirs - Breast Cancer Survivors Tell Their Own Stories
Every breast cancer survivor has a story to tell. Here are reviews of several breast cancer memoirs, which may encourage you, or serve as cautionary tales. Although their ages and diagnoses differ, these writers have survived, and want to pass along their experience. Read about breast cancer memoirs here.
'Any Day With Hair Is A Good Hair Day'
Packed with advice from cover to cover, Any Day With Hair may become the book you take with you everywhere. Author Michelle Rapkin, herself a cancer survivor, writes in a very easy to read style, with a positive and compassionate tone.
Packed with advice from cover to cover, Any Day With Hair may become the book you take with you everywhere. Author Michelle Rapkin, herself a cancer survivor, writes in a very easy to read style, with a positive and compassionate tone.
The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer--And Back
Katherine Russell Rich writes about being diagnosed at 32 with Stage 4 breast cancer, and how it affected her work and her relationships.
Katherine Russell Rich writes about being diagnosed at 32 with Stage 4 breast cancer, and how it affected her work and her relationships.
Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person
Dark humor and pop culture intertwine in this graphic novel about life with breast cancer. "Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person" is Miriam Engleberg's memoir in comics, which she started when she was 43 years old, and was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Dark humor and pop culture intertwine in this graphic novel about life with breast cancer. "Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person" is Miriam Engleberg's memoir in comics, which she started when she was 43 years old, and was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Saving Graces: Far From Ordinary
“In so many ways my life has been completely ordinary,” writes Elizabeth Edwards in her book, Saving Graces. This book is a good portrait of the Edwards family. But don’t expect this to be a breast cancer memoir, because Elizabeth Edwards has clearly moved on from there.
“In so many ways my life has been completely ordinary,” writes Elizabeth Edwards in her book, Saving Graces. This book is a good portrait of the Edwards family. But don’t expect this to be a breast cancer memoir, because Elizabeth Edwards has clearly moved on from there.
One-Breasted Woman, Poems by Susan Deborah King
Poet Susan King faces breast cancer and transforms her raw emotions into “vessels of words” which hold her terror, hope, and victory. She writes of changes in body and spirit, relationships with family and friends, facing “death’s hot, bad breath” and the blessing of recovery, with its small everyday pleasures.
Poet Susan King faces breast cancer and transforms her raw emotions into “vessels of words” which hold her terror, hope, and victory. She writes of changes in body and spirit, relationships with family and friends, facing “death’s hot, bad breath” and the blessing of recovery, with its small everyday pleasures.
It's Not About the Hair: And Other Certainties of Life and Cancer
Debra Jarvis is a general oncology chaplain at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. But as a woman of the cloth, her cloth is certainly tie-dyed! When she and her mother are diagnosed with breast cancer within days of each other, Debra hopes to live, thrive, and patch up all the old family quarrels. Meanwhile, her ministry to cancer patients goes on, with compassion and deep love and respect.
Debra Jarvis is a general oncology chaplain at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. But as a woman of the cloth, her cloth is certainly tie-dyed! When she and her mother are diagnosed with breast cancer within days of each other, Debra hopes to live, thrive, and patch up all the old family quarrels. Meanwhile, her ministry to cancer patients goes on, with compassion and deep love and respect.
Book Review - The Middle Place
A review of "The Middle Place" by Kelly Corrigan, a woman who grappled with breast cancer and her father's own diagnosis of cancer.
A review of "The Middle Place" by Kelly Corrigan, a woman who grappled with breast cancer and her father's own diagnosis of cancer.
5 Lessons I Didn't Learn from Breast Cancer - Shelley Lewis
Shelley Lewis takes us on the wild ride of her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, while working at Air America, having inadequate insurance and wondering if there was some "lesson" that breast cancer was going to teach her. Not a spiritual person, she settled for just one lesson from the whole experience: breast cancer doesn't change who you are. Lewis refuses to let the disease define her and shares insights from her own and other's experiences.
Shelley Lewis takes us on the wild ride of her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, while working at Air America, having inadequate insurance and wondering if there was some "lesson" that breast cancer was going to teach her. Not a spiritual person, she settled for just one lesson from the whole experience: breast cancer doesn't change who you are. Lewis refuses to let the disease define her and shares insights from her own and other's experiences.
Cancer Is A Bitch - I'd Rather Be Having a Mid-Life Crisis
In her book Cancer Is a Bitch, Gail Konop Baker strips down to raw feelings and takes us on a ride through life with her husband, three children, literary yearnings, a rocky family background and a diagnosis of breast cancer. Baker writes well about the emotions that often go along with a diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and puts it in perspective with the whirl of life.
In her book Cancer Is a Bitch, Gail Konop Baker strips down to raw feelings and takes us on a ride through life with her husband, three children, literary yearnings, a rocky family background and a diagnosis of breast cancer. Baker writes well about the emotions that often go along with a diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and puts it in perspective with the whirl of life.