The story of my tits

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344 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-60309-054-4
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OCLC Number:
910530312

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3 stars (1 review)

"When Jennifer Hayden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43, she realized that her tits told a story. Across a lifetime, they'd held so many meanings: hope and fear, pride and embarrassment, life and death. And then they were gone. Now, their story has become a way of understanding her story: a journey from the innocence of youth to the chaos of adulthood, through her mother's mastectomy, her father's mistress, her husband's music, and the endlessly evolving definition of family. As cancer strikes three different lives, some relationships crumble while others emerge even stronger, and this sarcastic child of the '70s finally finds a goddess she can believe in" --

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3 stars

Warning: This might be a bit too classically hetero-normative if you are sensitive to that sort of thing. It is a nonfiction account of a woman's own life, so there's a limitation to what can realistically happen, but it just did feel a bit disconnected from the outside world. And she sometimes dresses her husband in armor to show him as her white knight.

That said, I do think Hayden pulls together the story of her breasts very well. Tackling what really is a very personal, nuanced and culturally loaded piece of anatomy. Keeping it personal enough to keep things interesting and universal enough to connect to the lives of at least a lot of her readers on some level.

Subjects

  • Breast
  • Patients
  • Health
  • Cancer
  • Family
  • Biography
  • Comic books, strips