Writing Out the Storm: Reading and Writing Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury (Kindle Edition)

Posted by qpen on February 11, 2010

From Publishers Weekly

Ignore the title, which is bad. It’s okay, even, to ignore the writing exercises. Barbara Abercrombie’s Writing Out the Storm: Reading and Writing Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury is a moving, unsentimental portrait of the author with breast cancer, as she navigates her fear of death and love of writing with intelligence and grace; it’s a worthwhile book for anyone who’s ever thought about writing or thought about sickness. With excerpts from the (more…)

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