Tue, Mar 11
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Ariel Gore, Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer
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.
Date, Time & Location
Mar 11, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here.
Order Rehearsals for Dying ($18.95, paperback) online here or by calling the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event. A portion of book sales will be donated to The Cancer Foundation of New Mexico
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…