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The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. First published over forty years ago,

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The Ezra Klein Show

It was described as an extraordinary work that tracks the experience of a cancer diagnosis and mastectomy, intersecting with cultural narratives.

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Another book that I thought was extraordinary was Audre Lorde's Cancer Journal, which was kind of keeping track of what it was like to be diagnosed with and have cancer and get a mastectomy and is ver...

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It was described as an extraordinary work that tracks the experience of a cancer diagnosis and mastectomy, intersecting with cultural narratives.

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Another book that I thought was extraordinary was Audre Lorde's Cancer Journal, which was kind of keeping track of what it was like to be diagnosed with and have cancer and get a mastectomy and is very sharp on, again, kind of the ways in which a sick body intersects with preexisting cultural narratives.

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