The Victoria’s Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming: And Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer (English, Hardcover, Jennie Nash)

Diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35, Jennie Nash recalls feeling “shocked that I had cancer and blessed that I knew it so early.” She knew that she had to share her story — with family, friends, and now readers — as a way of owning the experience and taking control of her disease. The duality of Nash’s situation (having cancer and yet being somehow lucky, blessed), paired with her gift for storytelling, captures perfectly the nobility and the absurdity of waging a life-and-death war against one’s own body. Humorous without being glib and heartbreaking without being bleak, this book, as Nash herself writes, “may not be a cure, but it’s a truth, and it can make a difference.”

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