In this powerful memoir-in-miniature, Jean Hannah Edelstein charts the course of her unexpectedly brief relationship with breasts.
She writes about developing breasts and discovering them as a source of both shame and power. She writes about becoming a mother and her breasts becoming a source of food, her body someone else's now. And then
she writes about being diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer - anticipated but no less devastating - and what it means to lose and rebuild an essential part of herself.
At once courageous and humane, confessional and incisive, elegant, angry and full of heart, Breasts is both an intimate memoir about one woman's relationship with her own body and a universally relatable story for anyone who has ever had - or lost - breasts.
- ISBN10 1399622374
- ISBN13 9781399622370
- Publish Date 27 March 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English