Mammary Lane: A Sketchbook of Breast Cancer Survival

When the dark nasty showed up on her annual mammogram Rosemary Griggs put her long career as a ceramic sculptor on hold as she faced a myriad of life-affirming and life-altering treatments. Though her vibrant spirit felt sapped she managed to find the juice to sketch almost every day. Mammary Lane is a collection of sketches prose and poems that illustrate Rosemarys journey through the diagnosis treatment and cure of breast cancer. Often humorous sometimes wrenching and ultimately uplifting Mammary Lane is both a memoir and a journal of survival. It is a love story featuring drawings of the many caregivers both two- and four-legged that helped her through the emotional and physical upheavals of breast cancer treatment. It illustrates her evolving decisions on breast reconstruction and eventual deconstruction. Finally it is a tale of seeking and finding comfort in a changed body.