{"product_id":"diary-of-a-detour-lesley-stern-9781478009672","title":"Diary of a Detour","description":"\u003ci\u003eDiary of a Detour\u003c\/i\u003e is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels-down the street to her meditation center, across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Detour\u003c\/i\u003e offers new ideas about what it might mean to live and think with cancer, and with chronic illness more broadly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lesley Stern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478009675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478009672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2020","brand":"Lesley Stern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991420993791,"sku":"9781478009672","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3559a35-86c3-48e1-99f4-99b2363ca941.jpg?v=1683310194","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diary-of-a-detour-lesley-stern-9781478009672","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}