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Living On the Margins Women Writers on Breast Cancer. Edited, with an introduction by Hilda Raz.  In this anthology, 18 women writers address their personal experiences with breast cancer. They are novelists, poets, journalists, editors, and scholars. Insights sharpened and narrative powers intensified, they offer hope, understanding and a spirit of kinship.
This was a difficult book for me to read, because I can and do relate with each writer. When one wrote that while cutting a peach she found a bruised spot, cut it out, and handed the half to her friend, laughing and saying, "Clean margins." I knew exactly what she was feeling, and exacty what she meant. I feel this is a good book for those going through or those who have gone through breast cancer. For those who haven't, I don't know if they could really understand what these women and so many others, have endured and gone through. It may give them insight, but I don't think they could really feel what these women are saying. I guess it goes to show that you have to walk a mile in someones shoes to fully understand what they are going or have gone through. This book made me laugh, it made me cry, but most of all it verified my belief that we are all in this fight............together.
Review by Kat
Title: Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer
By: Hilda Raz (Editor)
Publisher: Persea Books (October 2001)
ISBN-10: 0892552700
ISBN-13: 978-0892552702
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