Martha - surprised to find your substack here today. Subscribed! First, happy to read of your marriage: mazel tov. Saddened by news of your cancer. From your rowing crew, I'd guess you're already familiar with Sandi Wisenberg's 'Cancer Bitch.' Another Readerite suggestion, Matt Freedman's 'Relatively Indolent but Relentless.' A huge help to me in my cancers and transplant was Christian Wiman's 'My Bright Abyss,' both essay and book. ...Wishing you well.
I haven’t read Boyer, but I am a US citizen so let me give my opinion of this book. She sounds like she is insistent on her exceptionalism, rather than the lowly collective only truth that we will all die. Now I have to read it. Please, keep writing.
Martha - surprised to find your substack here today. Subscribed! First, happy to read of your marriage: mazel tov. Saddened by news of your cancer. From your rowing crew, I'd guess you're already familiar with Sandi Wisenberg's 'Cancer Bitch.' Another Readerite suggestion, Matt Freedman's 'Relatively Indolent but Relentless.' A huge help to me in my cancers and transplant was Christian Wiman's 'My Bright Abyss,' both essay and book. ...Wishing you well.
Suggestion: 'The Two Kinds of Decay', Sarah Manguso.
Keep writing - and yes you will beat this.... C. Cook
One for the reading list: Mary Elizabeth Williams' A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles
I haven’t read Boyer, but I am a US citizen so let me give my opinion of this book. She sounds like she is insistent on her exceptionalism, rather than the lowly collective only truth that we will all die. Now I have to read it. Please, keep writing.