Memoir | 304 p.
A Bite out of the Sun: Personal Stories about Dealing With Cancer
Corien van Zweden &
Five teenagers, five parents, one disease.
‘I was quite fond of this body. It was mine, and I lived my life with the unspoken agreement that we would grow old together.’
When reporter and writer Corien van Zweden is diagnosed with breast cancer, her eldest daughter has just started high school. Soon, it turns out that her new class is a ‘cancerclass’: five of the twenty-five students have a parent who’s struggling with cancer. A bizarre situation that ties the afflicted parents and their children together, but also invites involuntary comparisons. How does cancer affect these families? How do the other parents deal with their illness? How does their life change? And what do these children – all five of them teenagers – think?
About farewells and new beginnings, about fighting or running away, bucket lists and teenage outbursts. A Bite out of the Sun gives personal, recognizable accounts and combines them with professional opinions, providing a layered, familiar and poignant report about the impact of this disease.
Good to Know
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- A moving exploration of living with the unthinkable
- German sample translation available
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