The Undying
By: Anne Boyer
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is lucky, warning her that her bad attitude may kill her, reminding her she could be dead."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
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1. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- health
- nonfiction
- essays
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
2. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
By: Vivian Gornick
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachmentsand The End of the Novel… read more
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3. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more
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4. Illness as Metaphor
By: Susan Sontag
3.88
Format: 373 pages,
In l978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the… read more
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5. Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA FINALISTA AL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD por Mandíbula Seleccionada por la … read more
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6. Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets
By: Clair Wills
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric o… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
7. Una ballena es un país
By: Isabel Zapata
4.26
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Un lobo marsupial extinto es un fantasma. Una tortuga es un espíritu antiguo que se pasea por una i… read more
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- poetry
8. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
9. Dios fulmine a la que escriba sobre mí
By: Aura García-Junco
3.94
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
H. Pascal, maestro excéntrico, escritor en el margen y promotor cultural, murió abruptamente en jul… read more
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"El envejecimiento de los padres es algo para lo que ninguna progenie está preparada"-Aura García-Junco, Dios fulmine a la que escriba sobre mí
10. Diario del dolor (Vindictas, #8)
By: María Luisa Puga
4.10
Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition
Los cien fragmentos de los que se compone este breve y poderoso diario son aproximaciones a la expe… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Linea Nigra
By: Jazmina Barrera
4.30
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Simultaneously a work of collaboration between mother and child and a diary of worry and joy, Linea… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"Una amiga me contó de Mary Shelley, que estaba embarazada mientras escribía Frankenstein. Era evidente, y sin embargo todas las veces que leí la novela no lo había visto: Frankenstein es una histori…"-Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra
12. Silencio
By: Clyo Mendoza
4.39
Format: 189 pages, None
Silencio cuenta una historia basada en hechos reales. A partir de la desaparición del cuerpo de una… read more
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- poetry
13. The Undying
By: Anne Boyer
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- science
"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is…"-Anne Boyer, The Undying
14. In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation
By: Isabel Zapata
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A MEDITATION ON IN VITRO FERTILIZATION THAT EXPANDS AND COMPLICATES THE STORIES WE TELL ABOUT PREGN… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- nonfiction
- essays
- science
"La primera regla de la fertilización in vitro es que no se habla de la fertilización in vitro. Si entre la avalancha de libros, blogs y películas es difícil encontrar las voces de las mujeres que dec…"-Isabel Zapata, In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation
15. Fruto
By: Daniela Rea
4.62
Format: 381 pages, None
Cuidar nos conserva, nos sostiene y nos reúne, pero también nos arrasa y nos agota. En Fruto, las c… read more
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16. Un lugar seguro
By: Olivia Teroba
4.17
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
En Un lugar seguro —obra ganadora del premio Emmanuel Carballo 2018— Olivia Teroba se mueve con sol… read more
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- nonfiction
"Las lágrimas pueden ser un alivio para la energía contenida dentro."-Olivia Teroba, Un lugar seguro
"No hay mayor freno para la escritura que la indiferencia de los lectores."-Olivia Teroba, Un lugar seguro
"Nunca había considerado la responsabilidad enorme que es encargarse de una misma."-Olivia Teroba, Un lugar seguro
"Escribir como una forma de alejarse de la pesadez. Para quebrar de golpe la necia igualdad de los días. Para reconectarse."-Olivia Teroba, Un lugar seguro
17. Desde los zulos
By: Dahlia de la Cerda
4.30
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Mezclando la autoficción, la crónica y el pensamiento feminista, en Desde los zulos Dahlia de la Ce… read more
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- nonfiction
"Un cuarto propio también son los privilegios que ayudan a que una mujer escriba. Una jornada laboral de menos de ocho horas es un cuarto propio. Dinero y tiempo para ir a un café a escribir es un cua…"-Dahlia de la Cerda, Desde los zulos
18. El celo
By: Sabina Urraca
4.39
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
La noche en que encontró a la Perra, la Humana estaba drogada. Por eso dejó que la siguiera a casa.… read more
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"¿ Qué necesidad hay del demonio cuando basta la persona ? Henri Michaux"-Sabina Urraca, El celo
"La Madre piensa que su hija tiene un trabajo , una vida . No sabe que todos sus días son días libres , y , al mismo tiempo , imposibles de vivir ."-Sabina Urraca, El celo
"El organismo droga a la recién parida para que quiera a su bebé y relativice cualquier horror del entorno. En términos salvajes, ¿ por qué iba alguien a tener clemencia con un ser que le ha dejado el…"-Sabina Urraca, El celo
"En términos terapéuticos lo explican así : al pasar el efecto de la droga , lo más probable es que el paciente vuelva a estar deprimido . Pero durante su viaje de éxtasis ha vuelto a conocer la sensa…"-Sabina Urraca, El celo
19. Sick Woman Theory
By: Johanna Hedva
4.54
Format: None pages, None
In this incendiary manifesto, Hedva proposes the Sick Woman as an identity that gets ascribed to an… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
20. Diario pinchado
By: Mercedes Halfon
3.79
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Crónica a la vez triste y risueña, Diario pinchado degrada a su víctima y al mismo tiempo la redime… read more
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21. Especies tan lejanas
By: Nayeli García Sánchez
3.64
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
«Siempre me acompaña la sombra afilada y puntiaguda de mi padre. No saber de él me arde como un fue… read more
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