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Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices (Health Communication)

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This is a co-created narrative, two voices on cancer: the patient and the patient's significant other. It is an autoethnography on death and surviving the loss of a loved one. It shows us how to go on, no matter how painful that is, and how we can learn and grow through loss.

I found this book both beautifully written, compelling at every turn, and utterly unusual. By highlighting the realities of living while dying, it demonstrates to anyone willing to listen, that death is indeed very much a part of life. It is not even a little bit preachy, but rather a "what we went through" and "how we did it" that is at once mundane, profound, and nakedly self-disclosing.

I had to read this book for a class but was overwhelmed by not only its true account of love and death but the powerful and positive message that the book leaves the reader with. Wether you have loved someone with Cancer or not Nick and Leah's story will deeply affect you. A must read!!

I first wanted to buy this book because one of my favorite professors at Cal State Univ.Sacramento, Nick Trujillo, had co-authored it with his now deceased wife Leah. However, I didn't buy it until my own father was diagnosed this year with terminal bladder cancer. I like the way the book is written with each chapter in parallel as each of the two characters progress through their lives. It shows how two people can view something from two different perspectives while arriving at the same outcome. The book is easy to read and doesn't seem to hold anything back. It is honest and forthright.

Very interesting book looking at two separate perspectives on disease, death, and dying from an ovarian cancer victim and her husband.