{"product_id":"9781475909883","title":"Greetings from CancerLand: Writing the Journey to Recovery","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortly after Alysa Cummings was diagnosed with breast cancer, she sat down at her laptop computer and began keeping a journal. Over the two years of her cancer treatment, Alysa continued writing as she moved through the healthcare delivery system:\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI fantasized that I could somehow use my computer to craft a story with an upbeat next chapter or fairy tale happily-ever-after ending. Looking back, that’s the only explanation I can come up with, why I felt so compelled to create a record of my day-to-day experiences as a cancer patient. The one thing I could control were these words that crowded each other as they quickly appeared on my computer screen; these stories that flowed through my fingertips in such a manic rush; these traumatic adventures that happened to me in a place I began to call CancerLand. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCancerLand: it’s this parallel universe, I swear, separate and apart from the rest of life as I once knew it. How did I end up in this wacky Bizarro World filled with freaky language and even stranger rituals? \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGradually her daily journal entries became vignettes and poems that were published on the OncoLink website. Greetings from CancerLand, a collection of Alysa’s writing from 2002-2012, charts one breast cancer survivor’s journey as she discovers the power of writing to move her recovery forward. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182990541040,"sku":"9781475909883","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781475909883_p0.jpg?v=1763606559","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781475909883","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}