In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. She writes in resistance to sickness, of wrestling toward beauty:
Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu:Tangling and strangling legitimate life.
Chemo is a killing, a burning out:
Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately
But cancer, did you know that I am a poet?
Through it all, she shows what it means to struggle in a battered body and to pray to a God who is near to the broken. Join her in this consideration of mortality and witness her persisting trust in God's unseen ways.
Table of Content
Foreword by Tish Harrison Warren
Preface: The Week Before Cancer
1. Beginning
2. Chemotheraphy
3. Mastectomy
4. Radiation
5. The Finish Line Moved
6. After
7. How should I end this book, when we all have different endings?
Acknowledgments
About the author
Tish Harrison Warren is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary and Prayer in the Night. She is a weekly contributing newsletter writer for the New York Times and writes a monthly column for Christianity Today. She is a writer in residence at Resurrection South Austin, a priest in the Anglican Church in North America, and a senior fellow with the Trinity Forum.
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