The sky begins at your feet
Subtitle: a memoir on cancer, community, and coming home to the body
By: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Publisher: Ice Cube Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: North Liberty, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781888160437
Description: "...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.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Singing the body electric; title: Getting lost; title: Like falling in a big vat of butter; title: Divining for doctors and Dharma; title: The impossible gaze; title: The facts of life; title: Chemopause; title: Atrophy; title: The new land; title: Breastless; title: Sky; title: Epilogue: Happy anniversary, darling!