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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Anne struggled to grasp her cancer diagnosis. She felt perfectly well, yet medical science insisted she was seriously, even life-threateningly, ill.
Chapter 3: Chemotherapy is a humiliating, degrading, utterly dehumanizing ordeal.
Chapter 4: As a patient, Anne saw that her friends, her doctors, and society at large treated her in profoundly different ways.
Chapter 5: Anne’s mastectomy proved an enraging ordeal.
Chapter 6: Women with breast cancer suffer at the hands of institutions supposedly meant to truly protect them.
Chapter 7: Surviving breast cancer often comes down to luck; it doesn’t actually depend on whether you fit the cancer narrative.
Description
The Undying (2019) is a searing, poetic account of the author’s journey through an aggressive form of breast cancer. It’s also a seething appraisal of women’s experience of this illness, in history and literature, as well as in the present-day United States.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who has ever suffered illness – from a common cold to cancer
- People interested in class politics
- Lovers of great literature