News from Lake Boobbegone: A Breast Cancer Memoir from the Heart

Question: Does the world really need another breast cancer memoir?Answer: Probably not.But writing is the only way Carolyn Redman knew how to process a heartbreaking breast cancer diagnosis and the year-long treatments that ensued. These honest heartfelt and sometimes humorous e-mails and essays written solely to keep family and friends informed of her medical condition morphed into the definitive exercise in self-compassion and healing. In the end no one was more surprised or more grateful than she was to find purpose and meaning masquerading as cancer.