Monday, February 16, 2015

Before I Go/Colleen Oakley/312 pages

At twenty-seven, Daisy Richmond is a breast cancer survivor. She has undergone a lumpectomy, radiation and chemotherapy and came through with flying colors. But the day before her four-year "cancerversary", she receives devastating news: her cancer is back and it's spread to several other places, including her brain. With surgery to remove the tumor in her brain and the possibility of a clinical trial, she may have a little more than six months to live. Without those things, maybe four. Her most urgent concern is not of her own health or mortality, but that of her husband's future without her. First and foremost, he must graduate on time with his DVM and PhD. Second, her wonderfully intelligent but decidedly impractical husband will need a new wife to take care of him. So instead of concentrating on her own health and spending what time she has left with loved ones, Daisy goes on a hunt for Jack's new mate.


Written in a much lighter tone that the subject matter would suggest, this novel tends to skip over the physical aspects of cancer and spends much of the time in Daisy's head. Not overly sentimental, it's a decent first novel.

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