by Jenny Diski
“In Gratitude,” is a different kind of cancer memoir, and an
almost entirely platitude-free one; which is to say, it’s a book that pushes in
five or six directions at once.
In part, it’s about her treatment and her onrushing
frailties, and this material is plain-spoken, harrowing and invariably moving.
It’s also the story of Ms. Diski’s youth and young adulthood, when she suffered
from depression and withdrawal and was in and out of psychiatric hospitals,
“rattling from bin to bin,” as she puts it.
To be published, May 117, 2016.
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