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wunder's review
5.0
"Novella and poetry about breast cancer" would not have been at the top of my list, except that I trust Mary Ann Mohanraj to satisfy. And this book does. Though the subject is breast cancer, alternating the author's journalistic poems and a story that fictionalizes her experience, what we see is people learning to care about each other. Kate is a stranger blindsided by a diagnosis and is, after resisting it, supported by a new community, who she learns to care for in return.
If we were still in the pandemic, I would be recommending this as a restorative, but we still need this kind of reading every day.
If we were still in the pandemic, I would be recommending this as a restorative, but we still need this kind of reading every day.
ebrooks's review
3.0
A sweet novella about the budding friendship/romance between a man who owns a flower shop and a woman who's undergoing treatment for early-stage breast cancer.
This is obviously a very personal book for the author, as the chapters are interspersed with poems and drawings she created during her own cancer treatment.
I would definitely recommend this book to someone who was starting cancer treatment.
This is obviously a very personal book for the author, as the chapters are interspersed with poems and drawings she created during her own cancer treatment.
I would definitely recommend this book to someone who was starting cancer treatment.
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