My Tropic Of Cancer
Living & Dying With A Dread Disease

My Tropic of Cancer: Living & Dying With a Dread Disease tells the story of cancer’s passage through three generations of the author's family. This deeply personal account relates the heartbreak, hope and occasional hilarity that travel with a life-threatening diagnosis. It includes gritty, day-to-day detail of life as a cancer patient,and considers the wider environmental, social and political milieus of cancer's arising. Sharing the author's family's physical, emotional and spiritual experiences of cancer, Tropic invites the reader along on an inter-generational awakening to the perils and possibilities that travel with this extraordinary disease. Tropic tells, finally, an exuberantly hopeful story, one that will encourage any family touched by cancer to find its own authentic, life-affirming and human response.