In this powerful anthology of personal narratives, essays, shaped journals, and poems, eighteen women writers share their experiences with breast cancerfrom diagnosis and treatment, to aspects of marriage, motherhood, friendship, sexuality, work, and recurrence. Lucille Clifton, Carol Dine, Elaine Greene, Marilyn Hacker, Judith Hall, Safiya Henderson-Holmes, Annette Williams Jaffee, Maxine Kumin, Amy Ling, Claudia MonPere McIsaac, Carole Simmons Oles, Alicia Ostriker, Pamela Post, Hilda Raz, Mimi Schwartz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sandra Spanier (on Kay Boyle), and Janet Sternberg. Includes an interview with Dr. Susan Love.