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Diary of a Detour (Hardcover)
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Diary of a Detour (Hardcover)
Series: Writing Matters!
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Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir
of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the
fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable
form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the
science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to
alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she
describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the
library, and her travels-down the street to her meditation center,
across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her
immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and
medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her
environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis,
mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a
larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and
singular, Diary of a Detour offers new ideas about what it might
mean to live and think with cancer, and with chronic illness more
broadly.
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