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Title: A self-indulgent journey and journal
Review: As a breast cancer survivor, this book was recommended to me by the proverbial friend-of-a- friend. (Who, as it turns out hadn't actually read "A Breast Cancer Journal.") I read it with hope, hoping to find a kindred spirit. What I found was a self-indulgent, egocentric account that paints the author as virtually the only woman who has had to struggle with this terrible disease. That Wittman is a technically clever and adroit writer, there can be no doubt. Like a good Hallmark card, she knows what buttons to push. But reading between the lines one finds a woman engaged not so much with how her disease might leave those she could possibly leave behind, or those committed to helping her or who love her, but a woman for whom the disease has provided an outlet for what I am sure is a considerable ego. There were moments in reading it that I almost felt sicker than during some of the worst moments of my illness. Read at your own risk.
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