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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Wicked Woman's Cancer Notebook

The Wicked Woman's Cancer Notebook

Solemani, Rachel

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 1067525238
ISBN13: 9781067525231
Publisher: Pomegrante Press (CA)
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Darkly funny, fiercely intelligent, and utterly unlike the usual illness memoir, The Wicked Woman's Cancer Notebook is Rachel Solemani's brutally honest account of life after an ovarian cancer diagnosis at age forty-five. Rejecting the pressure to become an inspirational patient, Rachel writes instead about what really consumed her thoughts: shopping, wigs, television, motherhood, fear, anger, friendships, chemotherapy, and the absurdity of being expected to turn suffering into self-improvement. With wit sharp enough to cut through sentimentality, she documents the strange collision between ordinary middle-class London life and the terrifying reality of serious illness. Written in the late 1990s while undergoing treatment, this memoir captures a voice that is funny, cultured, furious, vulnerable, and unmistakably alive. Rachel Solemani was a sociologist, counsellor, teacher, mother, and gifted observer of human behaviour. Her writing refuses pity and refuses cliché. Instead, it offers something rarer: truth, humour, and the stubborn insistence on remaining fully oneself in the face of mortality. Perfect for readers of literary memoir, dark humour, and unsentimental personal writing, The Wicked Woman's Cancer Notebook is both deeply moving and unexpectedly hilarious.

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