"An intensely powerful and moving memoir about genetics, mortality,
family, femininity, and the author's battle with cancer
"After the grief of losing her mother to cancer when Sarah
Gabriel was a teenager, she had learned to appreciate "the charms
of simple happiness." With a career as a journalist, a home in
Oxford, England, a husband, and two young daughters, she was
content. But then at age forty-four, she was diagnosed with breast
cancer--the result of M18T, an inherited mutation on the "BRCA1
"gene that had taken the lives of her mother and countless female
ancestors. "Eating Pomegranates "is Gabriel's candid and incredibly
intimate story of being forced to acknowledge that while you can
try to overcome the loss of a parent, you can never escape your
genetic legacy.
Being diagnosed with the same disease that killed her mother
compelled Gabriel to write this story. In her struggle for
survival, she recounts the rigors of her treatments and considers
the impact of a microscopic piece of DNA on generations of her
family's dynamics. She also revisits her past in an effort to
reclaim her identity and learn more about the mother who
disappeared too early from her life. Beautiful and brutal, "Eating
Pomegranates"--like the myth of Persephone and Demeter, which
inspires the title--is about mothers and motherless daughters. It
is about a woman so afraid of abandoning her children that she is
hardly able to look at them, and about the history of breast cancer
itself, from early radical surgeries to contemporary medicine.
Combining passion, humor, fierce intelligence, and clinical
detail, "Eating Pomegranates "is an extraordinary book about an
all-too-ordinary disease.
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