Retired trial attorney and professional writer, Constance Emerson Crooker takes an unflinching look at mortality in Melanoma Mama: On Life, Death, and Tent Camping. One reviewer, Rebecca Pepper Sinkler, former editor in chief of the N.Y. Times Book Review has said, "Melanoma Mama transcends the usual cancer journal, offering instead a true celebration of life and a glass of champagne tossed in the face of the Grim Reaper." In Melanoma Mama, Constance Crooker shows the power of the human spirit to soar above the grim realities that come with a diagnosis of Stage IV cancer. She refuses to lie about death, so she relates both her fears and her sassy challenge to the Grim Reaper. In this true narrative, she deftly weaves two stories in contrapuntal harmony. The journeys into the darkness of her treatments are lightened as they intermingle with the sparkling tales of her solo, cross-country tent camping trip--a trip she had not expected to live long enough to enjoy. There is nothing...

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