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"Rehearsals for Dying is a memoir that braids together the story of Ariel Gore's wife Deena's experience with metastatic breast cancer, her own role as a caretaker, narratives from others living with breast cancer, literary reflections on illness, and reportage on the history of breast cancer and the $200 billion industry that capitalizes on and profits from breast cancer screenings and treatments"--
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Ariel Gore makes books, zines, coloring books, and tarot cards. She is the founding editor and publisher of the Alternative Press Award–winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hexing the Patriarchy and The End of Eve. Her shameless novel/memoir, We Were Witches, was published by the Feminist Press, and her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Anthology. She teaches writing online at Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. She currently splits her time between Santa Fe and New York.
Riassunto
An expansive, darkly funny, and deeply personal reflection on the reality of living with—and dying from—metastatic breast cancer.
Deena stepped out of the shower and opened her towel in the steam. “Does my breast look weird?” These words irrevocably change the lives of writer Ariel Gore and her wife. As they descend into a world of doctors and tests, medications and insurance, sickness and treatments and hope and pain and more, they discover just how little they truly knew—despite the awareness campaigns and hyper-visible pink ribbons—about the reality of breast cancer. Over the four years following Deena’s terminal diagnosis, Gore does what she always does, no matter how difficult or personal the subject: she writes about it.
With keen insights, empathy, and humor, Ariel Gore braids together the story of Deena’s experience, her own role as a caretaker, narratives from others living with breast cancer, literary reflections on illness, and reportage on the history of breast cancer and the $200 billion industry that capitalizes on and profits from breast cancer screenings and treatments. Rehearsals for Dying investigates and challenges everything we think we know about breast cancer. It goes beyond awareness to knowledge, presenting a rich, nuanced, heartbreaking, and hopeful portrait of what it is to be diagnosed with, treat, and live with breast cancer in the twenty-first century.
Prefazione
- Author tour including Los Angeles, San Francisco/Bay Area, New York City, and Santa Fe; bookstore launch events and Feminist Press reading series inclusion. Submitting for Heartland Festival and CALIBA Fall Fest.
- Digital and Print ARCs included in CBSD Galley Box, ABA Advance Access newsletter, and targeted librarian outreach; national print, radio, and online campaign; targeted to outlets focused on women’s interest, feminist, LGBTQ.
- Submission for AWP 2025 (Los Angeles) panel on writing grief as well as major literary awards and book club consideration.
- Post-pub academic outreach to creative writing courses.
- Social media promotion on the author’s social channels (@arielfionagore on Instagram; @ariel_gore on X) and with queer, feminist, and disability influencers.
