Gail Konop Baker
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author of the forthcoming memoir CANCER IS A BITCH Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis (Da Capo October 2008)
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First online review: http://katieschwartz.blogspot.com/
Booklist: "wrenchingly authentic... down-to-earth account."
Publishers Weekly:
"In this heartfelt memoir, Baker proves to be both humorous... and compassionate."
Lolly Winston:
"Beautiful, funny, feisty, poignant."
Sara Gruen:
"Smart, funny, hopeful."
Jon Clinch:
"Real life... funny, sad, intimate, heartbreaking, and hopeful."
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Gail said "maybe" to attending the event: READING: Jennifer Cody Epstein & Fiona Maazel.
date: January 28, 2009 07:00PM location: Beatrice.com @ The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, 17 E 47th St (near Madison), New York, NY, The United States description: Jennifer Cody Epstein (The Painter from Shanghai) has written for Self, the Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. She has published short fiction in several journals and was a finalist in a Glimmer Train fiction contest. Fiona Maazel (Last Last Chance) has appeared in Anthem, Bomb, The Mississippi Review, The New York Times, N+1.com, Pierogi Press, Salon, Tin House, The Village Voice, and the Yale Review. She is the 2005 recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, winner of t...more Gail said: I might make it, Ron, since I will be back in NYC for the Dr Oz radio show that morning. | |||
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Cancer Is a Bitch: (Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis)
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"I want to be brave. I want to be big. I want to be gracious and cool. I want to be the Audrey Hepburn of cancer. "
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
"When does the part where I become a bigger person kick in?"
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
"When I was in college, the board game RISK was popular for a while. We’d get stoned and I’d stare at the little plastic pieces moving across the territories and get utterly confused about allies and enemies, arguing that nothing could be that black and white, complicating the whole notion of the game. But I understand that estrogen is my enemy now, the very thing that made me big-busted and fertile and a terrific nurser, has turned on me, inside my milk ducts where my body incubated nourishment that made my babies pink cheeked and roly-poly thighed. It’s all so twisted and ironic and confusing. Tamoxifen, a hero and a hazard, my breasts, a giver and taker of life, and I, the protagonist and the antagonist in this story"
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
"I want to be brave. I want to be big. I want to be gracious and cool. I want to be the Audrey Hepburn of cancer. "
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
"When does the part where I become a bigger person kick in?"
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
"When I was in college, the board game RISK was popular for a while. We’d get stoned and I’d stare at the little plastic pieces moving across the territories and get utterly confused about allies and enemies, arguing that nothing could be that black and white, complicating the whole notion of the game. But I understand that estrogen is my enemy now, the very thing that made me big-busted and fertile and a terrific nurser, has turned on me, inside my milk ducts where my body incubated nourishment that made my babies pink cheeked and roly-poly thighed. It’s all so twisted and ironic and confusing. Tamoxifen, a hero and a hazard, my breasts, a giver and taker of life, and I, the protagonist and the antagonist in this story"
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
"I’ll start in the middle: Winter 2006:
I’m sitting topless in the oncologist’s office on Valentine’s Day. Cancer is a bitch. It doesn’t give a shit about holidays."
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
I’m sitting topless in the oncologist’s office on Valentine’s Day. Cancer is a bitch. It doesn’t give a shit about holidays."
— Gail Konop Baker (Cancer Is a Bitch:)
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HI Gail,I've not had Cancer, but certainly have known several women who have......I intend to add your book to my list to read.
JJ
you are so sweet to say that, Shadonna! You're making me tear up here. I hope you have a great week, too! Gail
Hi Gail, nice to meet you again--Outside of Twitter! (LOL) You're an inspiration to many. Have a great week!
Shadonna
Author of A Gift of Hope
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