Cancer, I'll Give You One Year: A Non-Informative Guide To Breast Cancer, A Writer's Memoir In Almost Real Time

Cancer, I'll Give You One Year: A Non-Informative Guide To Breast Cancer, A Writer's Memoir In Almost Real Time is not about eating kale. The book is 100% narrative nonfiction and 0% 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 OJ 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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I did a reading with Changing Hands Bookstore on Zoom! Covid Hits the Writing World! Please go here for the reading and Q & A. Lara Smith, my cohort at Snotty Literati, hosted and she does an amazing job.

I was featured in a video by Ironwood Cancer Research Center, and it stars my husband. I love it, though it’s very hard for me to know I look like this.

I wrote “Holy Ground,” a pseudo-ode to the road trip and life-post-cancer, and it felt like it belonged in the book. Vol. 1 Brooklyn published it!

Here is a lovely new review by Adrienn Vasquez.

I love this review, especially because The Coachella Review quotes my kid!

Here’s an unorthodox cancer reading list.

Find the playlist/soundtrack to the memoir here. I love playlists. But, really, music is weird when you think you’re dying. I mean, I sound melodramatic. I can’t help it. A lot of the time, music I usually loved sounded trite or superficial. the songs on this list always resonated. The bell was tolling, and here was my soundtrack...