by Julie
Stern Joseph
Are we fated to follow in our parents' foot-steps? Is what we
experienced at home as children automatically transposed by us
onto our own children? When do you break the chain? How do you
stop personal history from repeating?
These are just some of the questions the author tries to answer
as she confronts the cancer that killed her mother in much the
same way it threatens to kill her.
But this is a book of therapy as well. We follow Julie, her husband
and children through their journey into fear of the unknown, through
diagnosis and missed diagnosis, through successful and not-so-successful
operations. We watch her reaction to those "miracle" medicines
that can destroy the patient even as they help cure her disease,
and we see how alternative medicines and their practitioners touch
her soul while helping her in her fight to reclaim her body.
Julie Stern Joseph received
her Masters' in Jewish history from NYU and has taught Jewish
History and other Judaic Studies to high school students for six
years in Long Island, New York. She is presently pursuing a doctorate
in Jewish Educational Administration from Azrieli Graduate School
of Education and Administration of Yeshiva University.
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