They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So

by Lori Jakiela

Overview

They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice is much more than a cancer memoir. It's a meditation on living. It's a pause between polarities. Cancer is almost an afterthought. Inspired by Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, it celebrates the tiny moments that spotlight the miracle of being alive, the messiness of being human.

Rice is a weirdly funny book about mortality. It's about family, genetics, nature vs. nurture, the Rust Belt, EPA clean-up zones, and more. Modeled on the work of stream-of-consciousness writers (Richard Brautigan, Virginia Woolf, Hunter S. Thompson), the book explores the way a mind works-complete with leaps and spirals-while reflecting on a life thoroughly lived against a dire breast cancer diagnosis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780991546992
Publisher:	Atticus Books
Publication date:	10/31/2023
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Lori Jakiela is the author of seven books, including the awardwinning memoir, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe (Atticus Books, 2015). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and many other places. She is currently a professor of English/Creative Writing at The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, where she directs the Creative & Professional Writing Program. A former international flight attendant, she lives in her hometown, Trafford, Pa., with her husband, the author Dave Newman, and their children.