Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
- Geralyn Lucas
- St Martin’s Press
- 1/10/2005
- ISBN: 9780312334468
RRP: $37.99 (Inc. GST)
Description
the last thing 27-year-old Geralyn expects to hear is a breast cancer diagnosis. And there is one part of the diagnosis that no one will discuss with her: what it means to be a young girl with cancer in a beauty-obsessed culture. Trying to find herself, while losing her vibrancy and her looks, Geralyn embarks on a road to self-acceptance that will inspire all women. Although her book is explicitly about a period of time where she was driven by fear and uncertainty about the future, Geralyn managed a transformation that will encourage all women under siege to discover their own courage and beauty. The important and outrageous lessons of Why I Wore Lipstick “come fast and furious with the same gusto that Geralyn has learned to bring to every moment of her life.”