{"product_id":"rehearsals-for-dying-digressions-on-love-and-cancer-paperback","title":"Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAriel Gore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn expansive, darkly funny, and deeply personal reflection on the reality of living with--and dying from--metastatic breast cancer.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeena stepped out of the shower and opened her towel in the steam. \"Does my breast look weird?\" These words irrevocably change the lives of writer Ariel Gore and her wife. As they descend into a world of doctors and tests, medications and insurance, sickness and treatments and hope and pain and more, they discover just how little they truly knew--despite the awareness campaigns and hyper-visible pink ribbons--about the reality of breast cancer. Over the four years following Deena's terminal diagnosis, Gore does what she always does, no matter how difficult or personal the subject: she writes about it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith keen insights, empathy, and humor, Ariel Gore braids together the story of Deena's experience, her own role as a caretaker, narratives from others living with breast cancer, literary reflections on illness, and reportage on the history of breast cancer and the $200 billion industry that capitalizes on and profits from breast cancer screenings and treatments. \u003cem\u003eRehearsals for Dying \u003c\/em\u003einvestigates and challenges everything we think we know about breast cancer. It goes beyond awareness to knowledge, presenting a rich, nuanced, heartbreaking, and hopeful portrait of what it is to be diagnosed with, treat, and live with breast cancer in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAriel Gore\u003c\/strong\u003e makes books, zines, coloring books, and tarot cards. She is the founding editor and publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine \u003cem\u003eHip Mama\u003c\/em\u003e and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003cem\u003eHexing the Patriarchy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe End of Eve\u003c\/em\u003e. Her shameless novel\/memoir, \u003cem\u003eWe Were Witches\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by the Feminist Press, and her anthology \u003cem\u003ePortland Queer: Tales of the Rose City\u003c\/em\u003e won the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Anthology. She teaches writing online at Ariel Gore's School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. She currently splits her time between Santa Fe and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987474809133,"sku":"9781558613362","price":20.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/sj876GhgqH9781558613362.webp?v=1776178926","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/rehearsals-for-dying-digressions-on-love-and-cancer-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}