WET EARTH AND DREAMS

In the spring of 1995, the condition I seem to have been waiting for all my life finally struck me. So begins Jane Lazarres accou nt of her transforming battle with breast cancer. Following in the tradition of her critically acclaimed literary memoirs The Mother Knot and Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons, Lazarre brilliantly interweaves her experience of life-threatening illness with other stories of recent and past lossesmost notably, that of her mother to breast cancer when Jane was a small ...[Llegir més]