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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/events/breast-cancer-awareness-month-recommended-reading/"></div><p>During <a href="http://www.who.int/cancer/events/breast_cancer_month/en/">Breast Cancer Awareness Month</a>, some of us are getting screening mammograms, and others are celebrating a breast cancer survival benchmark, our own or someone else’s. Some of us are <a href="https://www.cancer.gov/bcrisktool/">calculating our breast cancer risk</a> and realizing that most women will never develop breast cancer, but some will. Some of us are wearing pink ribbons and are heartened by <a href="http://wsbt.com/news/regional/bus-drivers-don-pink-hats-to-support-breast-cancer-awareness">bus drivers</a> and <a href="http://www.fox5ny.com/news/nj-cops-wear-pink-hats-for-breast-cancer-awareness-month">police officers</a> in pink hats, and others are cringing at what’s been dubbed <a href="http://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/opinion/tn-gnp-me-commentary-friedman-20171012-story.html">pink-washing</a> of a serious health and healthcare issue. Some of us are following <a href="https://twitter.com/OfficialJLD">Julia Louis Dreyfus</a>, who announced on Twitter at the end of last month that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s tough for even a healthy adult woman in the United States to avoid thinking about this disease as we make our ways through October each year. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/events/breast-cancer-awareness-month-recommended-reading/#more-5610" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Recommended Reading

All the Wild Hungers

Joy Enough

<strong>Anna Leahy is the author of the nonfiction book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tumor-Object-Lessons-Anna-Leahy/dp/150132330X"><em>Tumor</em></a> and the co-author of the forthcoming <em>Conversing with Cancer. </em>See more at <a href="http://www.amleahy.com">www.amleahy.com</a> &amp; @amleahy.</strong>

Anna Leahy

The Enduring Appeal of Cancer Lit

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Energy

What Makes the World Move

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Anna Leahy is the author of the nonfiction book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tumor-Object-Lessons-Anna-Leahy/dp/150132330X"><em>Tumor</em></a> and the co-author of the forthcoming <em>Conversing with Cancer. </em>See more at <a href="http://www.amleahy.com">www.amleahy.com</a> &amp; @amleahy.