The family tooth
Subtitle: on meeting and cheating death: a memoir in essays
By: by Ellis Avery
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780996585316
Subjects: Death; Cancer; Patients; Loss (Psychology); Parents; American Women authors; Psychological aspects; Mothers and daughters; Biography
Description: "At the beginning of 2013, hard on the heels of her mothers death and a cancer diagnosis, Ellis Avery was stuck in a mobility scooter, crippled by an autoimmune condition called Reiters Syndrome.  The Family Tooth is a cancer story sandwiched inside a grief-and-food memoir, but more than that, its a story of hope and, ultimately, triumph: it tells the story of the medical and psychological sleuthing that enabled her to walk again by the end of the year," --