Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices

by Nick Trujillo and Leah Vande Berg

In this book, Leah and Nick tell the story of their lives together and about how their love for each other sustained them during Leah's 14-month ordeal with Stage IV ovarian cancer. This book is one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572738510
• ISBN13: 9781572738515
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

In A Class of Its Own

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.

Powerful moving text

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.