All the Wild Hungers (forthcoming from Milkweed Editions, Fall 2018)

When my mother was diagnosed with a very rare uterine cancer, a cancer that only appears in children under the age of ten, a cancer for which there are only four hundred reported cases in adults in the last thirty years, she underwent through a complete hysterectomy that removed a three-pound cabbage-sized tumor, and then started a six month regimen of chemotherapy. At the same time, my sister announced her third pregnancy, with similar language of food and the body. I reread Sontag only to realize that the metaphors of cancer I found most disturbing were the food metaphors: my mother had a port put into her chest, her chemo treatments were infusions, the actual combination of drugs called a cocktail. As I tried to feed my mother anything she would eat, I learned the language of food and disease, finding tension in the spaces between the desire to understand and the impossibility of knowledge, the ways we gain experience through the body.

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