{"product_id":"mourning-a-breast","title":"Mourning a Breast","description":"\u003cb\u003eBy Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author's experience with breast cancer--from diagnosis to treatment to recovery--and her passage from a life lived through the mind into a life lived through the body.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1989, the acclaimed Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her semi-autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eMourning a Breast\u003c\/i\u003e is a disarmingly honest and inventive account of the author's experience of a mastectomy and of her subsequent recovery. The book opens with her putting away a bathing suit. As the routine pleasure of swimming is revoked, the small loss stands in for the greater one. But Xi Xi's mourning begins to take shape as a form of activism. Addressing her reader as frankly and unashamedly as an old friend, she describes what she is going through; finds consolation in art, literature, and cinema; and advocates for a universal literacy of the body. \u003ci\u003eMourning a Breast\u003c\/i\u003e was heralded as one of the first Chinese-language books to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer. It is a radical novel about creating in the midst of mourning.","brand":"Jennifer Feeley, XI XI","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46357418868972,"sku":"9781681378220","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781681378220.jpg?v=1744384888","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/mourning-a-breast","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}