Nearly Departed, Gila Pfeffer
Nearly Departed, Gila Pfeffer
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Nearly Departed
A Memoir: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences

Author: Gila Pfeffer

Narrator: Gila Pfeffer

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/13/2024

Synopsis

By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried the BRCA1 gene—which put her at high risk of developing cancer herself. Determined to break the cycle of early death in her family, Gila decides to undergo an elective double mastectomy.

This memoir follows her journey as she becomes a reluctant expert on how to sit shiva, grows up, falls in love, and enters motherhood, before her life is derailed yet again. Her double mastectomy reveals cancer already growing in one breast.

After enduring eight rounds of chemo and the removal of her ovaries, she takes her last-ever dip in the mikvah waters as a bald, menopausal, thirty-five-year-old mother of four. With chutzpah honed over years of repeatedly surviving the worst, she manages to save her own life.

Drenched in Gila's dark humor, Nearly Departed is a story about thriving against the odds, committing to what's important, and leaving a better legacy than the one you inherited.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julia on February 03, 2021

I enjoyed this mystery. Eve sure has a lot on her plate. She is working on two cases, her house is being built, she has a business to run and then there her family and friends. When her friend's step-daughter disappears, there is an attempted murder on the friend's uncle, her oldest son also disappe......more

Goodreads review by Anne on February 10, 2021

Nearly Departed by Lesley A Diehl is an Eve Appel Mystery, which is an exciting cozy if for no other reason than the diversity in characters and their extremely interesting back-stories. Eve is married to Sammy Egret, who is a Native American of the Miccosukee tribe, living in the swamps of Florida.......more

Goodreads review by Julie on February 17, 2021

Nearly Departed by Lesley Diehl is book 7 in the Eve Appel Egret Mystery series but this is the first book that I have read in the series. Eve is a married mom of 4, consignment shop owner and a part time PI living in Sabal Bay, Florida. Her kids range in age from teenagers to a 2 yr old. Her husban......more

Goodreads review by Rosemary on January 21, 2021

Eve Appel is a powerful woman. She wears many hats. She's wife, mother, friend, businesswoman and PI. I was impressed with her ability to juggle all her responsibilities. I know that I would have lost my mind. I loved her spunk. Eve is lucky to have such a strong support system. Her relationship wit......more

Goodreads review by Dena on January 18, 2021

I enjoyed Nearly Departed by Lesley A Diehl; the characters are though provoking and interesting. I would like to go back in the series and learn more about where they came from but found that this book is easy to read out of series. There are a lot of characters in the book and Eve seems to have he......more

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