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How To Perform a Cancer Self-Exam After Top Surgery
On October 6, 2022, I had gender-affirming top surgery. Hell yeah! On October 17 that same year, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Not a hell yeah. Going into top surgery, I was brimming with excitement, anticipation, and dreams of my first shirtless summer. At the time, I had no idea I had cancer. When my top surgeon unexpectedly found a tumor while performing my top surgery, I was fortunate she was able to remove it, right there on the spot.
Cancer Erased Me
I heard this from a few people after I finished chemo. The sentiment is nice and I know people mean well when they say things like this. At least for me, nothing could be further from the truth. What life am I going back to exactly? The one before cancer? That life doesn't exist anymore. That person doesn't exist anymore. Being done with chemo meant just that. Chemo was over. I still had radiation left to do. Currently, I have about two weeks left of radiation.
8 Timely Novels to Read this Earth Day
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times “A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told.” —The New York Times Book Review “An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.” —CBS Sunday Morning “[An] absorbing novel…I felt both grateful to have known these people and bereft at the prospect of leaving them behind.” —The Washington Post A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage...
Novels to watch over the next few months
| January 7, 2023 | News | UPDATE ; DAY Hot ahead! With the start of the winter season, lots of new foreign novels will arrive in bookstores. Here's a taste. A brand new Liane Moriarty? Almost. Because if it is for us, it is in fact the fourth novel by the Australian author and in its original version, it was published in 2011. Twelve years later, we too will have the chance to rub shoulders with hypnotherapist Ellen O'Farrell, who dreams of meeting someone stable instead of chaining love affairs.
Mark Twain American Voice In Literature Award 2022 Short List Announced
The Mark Twain House & Museum has announced the Short List of titles for The 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award! The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award honors an exemplary work of fiction from the previous calendar year that speaks with an "American Voice" about American experiences, much like Twain's masterwork, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Sixty eligible titles published in 2021 were submitted for consideration.
“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel
Quiet and surprising, Josephine Johnson’s Now in November is more than a novel about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. This is a book about thirst—the land’s thirst for rain, yes, but also human thirsts for love, for justice, for the relative security a little money can bring.
Ash Davidson: Trade Paperback: 9781982144418: Powell's Books
by Ash Davidson $17.99 New Trade Paperback Release Date: 5/4/2022 Upcoming Event Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring (Scribner) is a stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future. Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It’s 1977, and life in this Pacific Northwest logging town isn’t what it used to be.
Damnation Spring
BookBrowse: Ash Davidson's evocative and gorgeously written debut novel depicts a small Northern California logging town facing the effects of generations of destructive environmental practices.
Poison from the Sky in Oregon: Background information when reading Damnation Spring
Poison from the Sky in Oregon This article relates to Damnation Spring In Ash Davidson's Damnation Spring, residents in a sparsely populated Northern California logging enclave in the late 1970s face a disturbing epidemic of miscarriages, stillbirths, birth defects and other ailments linked to the local timber company's use of herbicide sprays.
Best Books of 2021: Fiction by Powell's Staff
Lists Best Books of 2021: Fiction by Powell's Staff, November 9, 2021 9:27 AM Best Nonfiction of 2021 | Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Romance & Graphic Novels of 2021 | Best Kids' and YA of 2021 Can a year’s worth of fiction really be distilled into a short list of the very best work? If you like a book, it’s good; there’s no value in snobbery.
Trees of life...and death
“DAMNATION SPRING” By Ash Davidson Scribner ($28) So many characters crowd the first 100 pages of “Damnation Spring” that Ash Davidson’s ambitious debut can bewilder. But by the time this gifted West Coast author brings her saga to its hard-won close, you come to care for those characters, even the thoroughly bad ones.
DAMNATION SPRING
Rebecca Lowman and CJ Wilson lead this immersive and timely debut, set in the late 1970s. Illuminated by the ensemble narration, the audiobook is a family saga involving a logger's dream and looming environmental devastation. Lowman channels the vulnerable strength of Colleen, the town midwife, who is struggling with the miscarriages taking place in the town, including her own.
From Towering Redwoods to Tiny Creatures, This Novel Has It All
Ash Davidson’s debut, “Damnation Spring,” gets at a logging community’s deep roots. By John McMurtrie Feeling old? Consider the redwood. Reaching heights of more than 350 feet, the world’s tallest tree has been on this planet since the days of the dinosaurs. A single specimen can live more than 2,000 years. That’s old enough to make it through the Roman Empire, the British Empire and an assortment of Kennedys, Bushes and Trumps.
Review: Knockout debut novel mines a story of family love set against the politics of logging
Ash Davidson’s debut novel is “Damnation Spring.” Photo: Carol B. Hagan If you live anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, you’re no stranger to the thorny politics of logging. There are the tree-cutters on one side and tree-huggers on the other, and never the twain shall meet. Either you’re wielding the ax of the capitalist machine or you’re an environmentalist do-gooder handing out petitions and chanting “This Land Is Your Land” at a harvest site.
Books We Can’t Wait to Read in August 2021 — Write or Die Tribe
Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed - August 3 (Counterpoint Press) A tour-de-force debut following three generations of a Muslim-Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change in Obama-era San Francisco and Texas with a blockbuster ending you have to read to believe. All’s Well by Mona Awad - August 3 (Simon & Schuster) With prose Margaret Atwood has described as “no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged...genius,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet.
Review | ‘Damnation Spring’ beautifully explores the human cost of environmental damage
To enter “Damnation Spring,” the debut novel by Ash Davidson, is to encounter all the wonder and terror of a great forest. Set amid the majestic redwoods of Northern California, the story runs as clear as the mountain streams that draw salmon back to spawn. Here is an author who knows and appreciates the land from every dimension — as nature, home, cathedral and cash.
Damnation Spring
This reading group guide for Damnation Spring includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. Introduction For generations, Rich Gundersen’s family has chopped a livelihood out of the redwood forest along California’s rugged coast.
Musical, plays and other live performances this summer in Columbus
A few short months ago, the status of many summertime arts and entertainment events was still up in the air. With the lifting of state health orders earlier this month, in addition to encouraging trends in coronavirus numbers and vaccination rates, many music, theater, visual-arts, literary and movie events are set to resume.
Summary and Reviews of Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
Rich He lay for a moment, Colleen's arm draped over him, heavy with sleep: three thirty a.m. on the dot, his body its own alarm clock. He held his breath, trying to slip free without waking her, but the moment his feet touched rug, she sat up. He groaned, getting his shirt on. His back ached from carrying Chub up to the 24-7 yesterday. "Want me to walk on it?" Colleen asked. "Maybe tonight." He rolled his shoulder, laced up his boots.
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