One Body: A Retrospective
Catherine Simpson
Memoir, audiobook · Great for: Anyone looking to understand the experiences of someone with cancer
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By the time she reached her fifties, Catherine had experienced period pain, childbirth, and early menopause, alongside love and laughter, a career in journalism, and raising two daughters.
Like many of her peers, along the way she’d dieted, jogged, sweated, tanned, permed, and plucked-always attempting to conform to prevailing standards of “acceptable womanhood.” But when a medical crisis comes along, she can no longer pummel her body into submission and is forced to take stock.
From growing up on a farm where veterinarians were more common than doctors, and where illness was “a nuisance,” she now faces the nuisance of a lifetime. One Body is the demystifying, relatable, often hilarious, and sometimes hair-raising story of how Catherine navigates her treatment and the emotions and reflections it provokes. And how she comes to drop the unattainable standards imposed on her body, and simply appreciate the skin she is in.
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What we think of this book & ideas for gifting
A moving memoir about a personal experience of breast cancer that will resonate with those who have gone through the same experience, or know someone who has.
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