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It challenges conventional illness narratives and the systems surrounding them.
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
Anne Boyer2020 selection · Nonfiction
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
A poet's formally inventive account of breast cancer, treatment, pain, and the economics of care.
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You appreciate memoir blended with criticism and poetry.
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