Adventures of a One-Breasted Woman: Reclaiming My Moxie After Cancer

You’re cured now,
Susan Cummings’s surgeon proclaimed to her a few weeks after her mastectomy. That’s it?
That’s it, her surgeon repeated. But, that wasn’t it by a long shot for Cummings, as we learn in her memoir about her first six years after treatment for early-stage breast cancer. A single woman progressing at lightning speed through her middle years when diagnosed, a struggling New York actress, she takes us on her up, down and sideways adventures-sometimes poignant, often laugh-out-loud funny-as she wrangles with her fear of more cancer and shame of her altered body. But with indefatigable determination-from scouring the North American continent for the perfect health regimen to conducting a beautiful breast survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art-she does reclaim her moxie!