Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences

Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences

How far would you go to save your own life? In this funny and heartfelt memoir, Gila Pfeffer recounts losing both parents to cancer and the choices she made to avoid the same early demise. …

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