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Between The Bone: A Story of Cancer, Amputation, and the Words That Saved Me
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ISBN13: 9798198127265
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I want to tell you about a book that I keep thinking about.
Liam Jones was thirteen years old when he found out he had bone cancer. Not the slow-moving kind. The aggressive kind, in his leg, that required years of chemotherapy and eventually an amputation at sixteen.
He'd planned to become a doctor. He was inspired by everyone who'd treated him, wanted to give something back. Then he sat through organic chemistry and calculus and realized that wasn't how his brain worked. He switched to English. Got an MFA. Found his way to Columbia's Narrative Medicine program - a field that studies what happens when doctors actually stop and listen to the full story a patient is telling.
Liam Jones was thirteen years old when he found out he had bone cancer. Not the slow-moving kind. The aggressive kind, in his leg, that required years of chemotherapy and eventually an amputation at sixteen.
He'd planned to become a doctor. He was inspired by everyone who'd treated him, wanted to give something back. Then he sat through organic chemistry and calculus and realized that wasn't how his brain worked. He switched to English. Got an MFA. Found his way to Columbia's Narrative Medicine program - a field that studies what happens when doctors actually stop and listen to the full story a patient is telling.
Now he teaches there.
Between the Bone is the book about him. It's not a typical illness memoir - it doesn't have that cleaned-up, everything-happens-for-a-reason feeling. It has real detail in it. The smell of chemo. What phantom limb sensation actually feels like. And woven through all of that is a genuinely important idea: that being truly heard by another person - not medically processed, but actually heard - is a form of medicine in itself.
If you've ever sat in a waiting room feeling invisible, or been the person in the chair next to the bed not knowing what to say, this book sees you.
Between the Bone is the book about him. It's not a typical illness memoir - it doesn't have that cleaned-up, everything-happens-for-a-reason feeling. It has real detail in it. The smell of chemo. What phantom limb sensation actually feels like. And woven through all of that is a genuinely important idea: that being truly heard by another person - not medically processed, but actually heard - is a form of medicine in itself.
If you've ever sat in a waiting room feeling invisible, or been the person in the chair next to the bed not knowing what to say, this book sees you.
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