This story is a memoir written by a young woman who discovers she has breast cancer.  She is married and has two young daughters.  As depressing as this outline sounds, the story is very touching and even funny because of Kelly Corrigan’s sense of humor.  What we can gain as the reader of this memoir [...]

Helene Cooper’s memoir tells the story of her childhood in Liberia.  Her family was part of the elite class of “Congo People” whose ancestors were freed American slaves who settled in Liberia around 1840.  Her family had great power in Liberia until the civil war began there in 1980.  Her uncle was then executed publicly [...]