Seal Press
October 2012
On Sale: September 25, 2012
328 pages ISBN: 1580054447 EAN: 9781580054447 Kindle: B009FR4QGI Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Hillary Fogelson led a charmed life: as the young wife of a
successful Hollywood executive, her only major concerns were
her acting auditions, interior decorating, and unexpected
visits from her high-maintenance parents. Then, one day, her
doctor told her she had malignant melanoma—a cancer that
leads to more deaths for women between the age of 25 and 30
than any other—and her life was forever
changed.
Pale Girl Speaks is the darkly funny
story of Fogelson’s neuroses and struggles after her
diagnosis with melanoma. In her witty, wisecracking
narrative, Fogelson recounts how her battle with cancer
brings up other issues in her life that she’s been ignoring,
especially her anxieties about her relationship with her
husband, her friends, and her parents. The apprehension she
feels soon manifests itself in more concrete ways—panic
attacks, heavy reliance on alcohol, and a compulsive need to
constantly check in with her doctor—but when her father
discovers that he has melanoma as well, Fogelson has to
learn to lead by example and let go of her fear. A story
that will appeal to anyone who has faced adversity and lived
to tell jokes about it, Pale Girl Speaks is about one
woman who experienced the worst possible fallout of being
fair-skinned—and survived with her sense of humor intact
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