They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice

<p><em>They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice</em> is much more than a cancer memoir. It's a meditation on living. It's a pause between polarities. Cancer is almost an afterthought. Inspired by Amy Krouse Rosenthal's <em>Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life</em> it celebrates the tiny moments that spotlight the miracle of being alive the messiness of being human. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Rice</em> is a weirdly funny book about mortality. It's about family genetics nature vs. nurture the Rust Belt EPA clean-up zones and more. Modeled on the work of stream-of-consciousness writers (Richard Brautigan Virginia Woolf Hunter S. Thompson) the book explores the way a mind works-complete with leaps and spirals-while reflecting on a life thoroughly lived against a dire breast cancer diagnosis.</p>