It was the beginning of her year-long battle with breast cancer and its fallout—a battle that would upstage any midlife crisis she’d worried was waiting in the wings. As she writes, “I wanted to be feeling bad about my neck; instead I was feeling bad I wouldn’t live long enough to feel bad about it.” Based on her popular Literary Mama column, Cancer Is a Bitch is the author’s raw, moving account of juggling midlife, motherhood, and marriage with a rogue boob—and, ultimately, triumphing.