This is the powerful true story of four years in the life of a contemporary woman juggling her failing marriage, her children, her career and her own desires. When Amy discovers she has cancer, she is forced to fight for her life with a courage she never thought she had. With the love of her children and the strength of her renewed spirit, she reclaims a passion for life and laughter long since abandoned for material rewards.
The book is written in the first person narrative with an extraordinarily unique voice. Her prose so poignantly captures a reader's empathy and compassion with a humor and honesty which few choose to embrace. Some of the drama in her four year journey includes a cross-country move to Florida with her family, a return to New York when things were not working out, a confrontation with breast cancer and the upheaval that ensues, then a marriage which crumbled in the wake of it all.
When Amy was forced to stand still among the countless broken pieces in her life, she rediscovers her sense of self, and at last must face the true source of her suffering. This is not a book about balancing a career and children, not a book about cancer and divorce; rather it is about one woman's answer to some mid-life confrontations that can strike us more as an opportunity for real change than as a perilous ambush.
