WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020
WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020
FINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020
''Profound and unforgettable'' Sally Rooney
''A classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius'' Patricia Lockwood
''An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique'' Ben Lerner
''Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read'' Hari Kunzru
Blending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist''s devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern world
A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politic
