{"id":773,"date":"2025-01-08T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:45:08","slug":"773","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer<\/a> – ask for it wherever you buy books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBreast cancer is no joke, but sometimes finding the humor shifts the story into something you can tell. Rehearsals for Dying<\/em> will help many.\u201d \u2014Tig Notaro, comedian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was so moved by this book\u2014and charmed, and outraged, and devastated. Ariel Gore brings her keen wit and signature fearlessness to a story that could not have higher stakes, churning out a legit masterpiece that I could not put down. Her insistence upon radical truth and the style in which it\u2019s told\u2014elegant, snarky, raw, poetic\u2014left me awed, my own humanity electrified.\u201d \u2014Michelle Tea, author of Knocking Myself Up<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRehearsals For Dying<\/em> is one of the most innovative and compelling memoirs exploring life and grief I\u2019ve ever read\u2014and I\u2019ve read a lot of them. Ariel Gore\u2019s observational wit and empathetic heart made this a book I read in two sittings. With a refreshing and propulsive structure, Ariel queers the grief memoir in a way I didn\u2019t know I needed. She asks the unanswerable questions and explores the unspeakable answers.\u201d \u2014Chlo\u00e9 Caldwell, author of Women<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn Rehearsals for Dying<\/em>, Ariel Gore has woven together wit, humor, poetry, and raw emotions to present the heart-wrenching truth of what it means to live with cancer as a biological and a social phenomenon, and the real cost it exacts on both its victims and their loved ones.\u201d \u2014Nafis Hasan, author of Metastasis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAriel Gore is a national treasure, and Rehearsals for Dying<\/em> is a profound gift to us all. In her brilliantly bold, genre-defying manner, Gore looks head-on at the devastating loss of her beloved wife, Deena E. Chafetz, as well as the broader machinations of the patriarchal breast cancer\u2013industrial complex. Guided by the voices of Audre Lorde, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Lucille Clifton, Susan Sontag, and other feminist writers who\u2019ve grappled in life and on the page with cancer and death, Gore has crafted a literary experience that is part heartbreaking tribute, part experimental memoir, part exalted homage to queer love and community, and part indictment of the violent failures of America’s broken medical \u2018care\u2019 systems. Also there are recipes, because Deena Chafetz was a chef, and\u2014despite it all!\u2014it’s really funny. Because Ariel Gore is a magician. I\u2019m so grateful for this book.\u201d \u2014Kate Schatz, author of Rad Women Worldwide<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em>\u201cRehearsals for Dying<\/em> is stunning: highly informative, wildly crafty, and incredibly vulnerable. I marveled at Ariel Gore\u2019s ability to weave together so many stories and threads all while remaining emotionally ferocious and tender and loving. This is a book everyone should read.\u201d \u2014Tomas Moniz, author of Big Familia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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