{"product_id":"nearly-departed-gila-pfeffer-9781891011627","title":"Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost both parents to cancer. She underwent genetic testing and, after learning that she carried the BRCA1 gene, decided to have a double mastectomy. That choice saved her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis memoir follows her journey to break the cycle of death in her family. After becoming a reluctant expert on how to sit shiva, she grows up, falls in love, and becomes a mother, before her life is derailed yet again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer double mastectomy reveals cancer already growing in one breast. After enduring eight rounds of chemo and the removal of her ovaries, she takes her last-ever dip in the mikvah waters as a bald, menopausal, thirty-five-year-old mother of four.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrenched in Gila's dark humor, honed over years of repeatedly surviving the worst, \u003cem\u003eNearly Departed\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about thriving against the odds, leaning in to her Jewish faith, and leaving a better legacy for her children than the one she inherited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gila Pfeffer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1891011626\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781891011627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Experiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/22\/2024","brand":"Gila Pfeffer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44756566606079,"sku":"9781891011627","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16d0ef20-b3ca-4d47-bcef-27aedd09a6cd.jpg?v=1706593313","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nearly-departed-gila-pfeffer-9781891011627","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}