Title This really isn't about you / Jean Hannah Edelstein.

Publication Info.	London, England : Picador, 2018.
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Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction	362.1969 EDELSTEIN	Check Shelf
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Description	257 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	'In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too.' When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big questions in life: how do we cope with grief? How does living change when we realize we're not invincible? Does knowing our likely fate make it harder or easier to face the future? How do you motivate yourself to go on your OkCupid date when you're struggling with your own mortality? Written in her inimitable, wry and insightful voice, Jean Hannah Edelstein's memoir is by turns heart-breaking, hopeful and yet also disarmingly funny. This Really Isn't About You is a book about finding your way in life. Which is to say, it's a book about discovering you are not really in control of that at all.
Subject	Edelstein, Jean Hannah -- Family
	Edelstein, Jean Hannah -- Health
	Bereavement.
	Cancer -- Patients -- United States.
	United States.
	Bereavement. (DNLM)D001601
	Neoplasms. (DNLM)D009369
	Patients. (DNLM)D010361
	Paternal Inheritance. (DNLM)D000072740
	Bereavement. (OCoLC)fst00830665
	Cancer -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00845411
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Health. (OCoLC)fst00952743
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Autobiographies.
Added Title	This really is not about you
Other Form:	Ebook version : 9781509863808
ISBN	9781509863792 (paperback)
	1509863796 (paperback)
	1509863788
	9781509863785
	9781509863808 (ePub ebook)

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