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Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences
By Gila Pfeffer
Hardcover
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By Gila Pfeffer
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2024 Winner of the Gilda Prize, Story Circle Network’s Women’s Book Awards
A Reading Group Choices Favorite Nonfiction Book of 2024
A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir of losing both parents to cancer and the daring choices Gila Pfeffer made to avoid the same early demise
By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried the BRCA1 gene—which put...