The book opens with the unnamed narrator thinking she’s in a fun date at a favorite buffet. She soon learns this is her husband’s way of dropping the bombshell that he’s been having an affair and is leaving her. It’s the same approach you use when you take your kid to the toy store to tell them the dog has died. Days later, the narrator learns she has breast cancer. She leans on her best friend and wine and the dark humor she finds in the situation (like naming her tumor after her husband’s mistress).
She handles it all because she has to. She may have cancer, but she still has to care for her kid. Her husband may have abruptly left her, but she still has to fight the cancer. You can be angry and sad and resentful, but it doesn’t stop life from plowing forward so you must plow forward with it. This is what it means to be a woman.
3.75 out of 5 stars.
Pair with: Rupee beer
Peaches to Apples 