Nearly departed : adventures in loss, cancer, and other inconveniences : a memoir
(2024)
By:
Pfeffer, Gila
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/PFEFFER,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : The Experiment, [2024]
©2024
©2024
DESCRIPTION
258 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781891011627, 1891011626 :, 1891011626, 9781891011627
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"In this funny and heartfelt memoir, Gila Pfeffer recounts losing both parents to cancer and the choices she made to avoid the same early demise"--
CONTENTS
Another motherless daughter --
Great at a shiva --
Can we skip to the good parts? --
Days of onions --
Outsmarting my genetic destiny --
All the single ladies --
Meeting my destiny on the road I took to avoid it --
Cranial prosthesis --
A little death --
Getting all chemotional --
Technically a woman --
Mom who knew too much