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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
Brief description: Gila Pfeffer is a Jewish American writer and humorist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Today.com, and elsewhere. Gila's monthly "Feel It on the First" campaign reminds women to prioritize their breast health. She splits her time between New York City and London.
Review Quotes: Pfeffer does not shy away from the grisly details of her treatments--or the agony of making what were often deemed risky medical decisions--but does so with a biting sense of humor that makes Nearly Departed as funny as it is revealing.--Shelf Awareness