<p><b>''A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer''</b><b>Jackie Kay, <i>New Statesman<br></i></b><i><br><b>The Cancer Journals </b></i><b>is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde.</b><br><br>Moving between journal entry, memoir, and essay, Lorde fuses the personal and political to reflect on the many questions breast cancer raises: questions of survival, sexuality, prosthesis and self-care. It is a journey of survival, friendship, and self-acceptance. <br><br>''Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet'' <b>Adrienne Rich</b><br><br>''This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me'' <b>Alice Walker</b></p>