{"product_id":"cancer-just-is-morgan-j-bolt-9781641730945","title":"Cancer Just Is: Convictions of a 20-Something Exploring His Illness, Faith \u0026 Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith unguarded humor and honesty, Morgan J. Bolt balances his experiences as a cancer patient with the mind-set, faith, and theology that helped him both to endure his prognosis and treatments and to relish the opportunities that came along the way.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust a few months after graduating from college, Morgan Bolt was diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell tumors (DSRCT), a rare pediatric cancer. Over the next four years, together with his wife, Christina, Morgan endured aggressive radiation and chemo treatments, multiple surgeries, and the reality of confronting his own mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout Morgan's memoir of his journey with DSRCT, he breaks down common preconceptions about cancer and cancer patients, including why people get sick, prejudices facing disabled people, why prayer is weird, and how the church both supported and abandoned him in his illness. The most vital of these preconceptions is also the first: cancer is not evil. \u003ci\u003eCancer just is.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarely a month after publication, Morgan lost his battle with cancer. His message is alive and timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCancer Just Is\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm better off because I encountered this book, and you will be too. Read it, consume it, and hold on to that love. For the love that made you will indeed be the love that brings you, and all of us, home.\" -\u003cb\u003eRob W. Lee, author of \u003ci\u003eStained-Glass Millennials\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Sin By Any Other Name\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this gripping narrative, Morgan Bolt speaks with such an honest, eloquent, and compelling voice that it must join the chorus of America's most memorable literary narrators. But instead of rafting the Mississippi River, exploring the West, or wandering New York, Bolt's journey takes him into the harrowing clinical corridors of a young cancer patient prematurely confronting death. His powerful account of that pilgrimage, however, is a bittersweet celebration of a life, told with disarming humor, unflinching candor, and a remarkable wisdom and faith that will be a gift to all who listen.\" -\u003cb\u003eKerry Temple, editor of \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Morgan J. Bolt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1641730943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781641730945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Smyth \u0026amp; Helwys Publishing, Incorporated\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Morgan J. Bolt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47200853328127,"sku":"9781641730945","price":14.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3fc4ac69-61e6-40a2-b0b7-05dc0bfff6a0.jpg?v=1756788022","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cancer-just-is-morgan-j-bolt-9781641730945","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}