A Half Sleeve of Violets: A Story of Love and Terminal Cancer

＂Rehearsals for Dying is a memoir that braids together the story of Ariel Gore’s wife Deena’s experience with metastatic breast cancer, her own role as a caretaker, narratives from others living with breast cancer, literary reflections on illness, and reportage on the history of breast cancer and the ＄200 billion industry that capitalizes on and profits from breast cancer screenings and treatments＂--

Ariel Gore makes books, zines, coloring books, and tarot cards. She is the founding editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest, Hexing the Patriarchy, is out from Seal Press. Her shameless novel/memoir, We Were Witches, was published by The Feminist Press. Her memoir, The End of Eve, has been called ＂Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? She teaches writing online at Ariel’s Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen.