<p><b>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020</b><br><b>FINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020</b><br><br><br><b>''Profound and unforgettable'' </b>Sally Rooney<br><b>''A classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius'' </b>Patricia Lockwood<br><b>''An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique''</b> Ben Lerner<br><b>''Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read'' </b>Hari Kunzru<br><br><b>Blending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist''s devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern world</b><br><br>A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politic