Buoyancy: A Memoir, Paperback/Jeannie L. Piekos

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Description When faced with an aggressive and rare cancer diagnosis, Jeannie Piekos, writer, poet and art activist, found a way to navigate and share her cancer journey through essays and poetry. In "Buoyancy: a memoir," she travels from the heart-breaking, life-threatening diagnosis through the treatment protocol with its side-effects and fallout, and onward into a transformed, unrecognizable self that yearns to find self-acceptance and possibly, recovery. "Buoyancy" provides a lens into a private space that allows the reader to be witness to the loneliness, bittersweet poignancy, universality and transformative power of disease. "Finding peace with my situation meant learning to love what felt broken in my life--my heart, my body and the cells that went awry..."