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Book SynopsisOn the cusp of adulthood, a young writer's life is stalled as he faces cancer that keeps coming back.
Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation these persist, but they aren't the milestones of his life. They can't be, he won't let them be.
From helicoptering into the Yukon backcountry to teaching in an elite writing program, Jason strives to enter adulthood with some normalcy, but his is the life of a special case. And he does live. He lives working at a deli for minimum wage as his students come down the hill to shop and ask what he's doing there. He lives measuring out nausea pills and benzos while his roommates drink and smoke and party. He lives lying to girlfriends abou
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Jobin defies the odds, not just in beating death, but writing a book that’s engaging, casually brilliant, often funny. * BILL GASTON, author of Just Let Me Look at You *
His voice is incomparable, lucid, and irreverent in all the right ways. I will hold this book close to my heart for its honesty and courage and fine, fine writing. * LORNA CROZIER, award-winning poet and author of Through the Garden *
How do you run if the killer lurks within? Where do you hide? Does anyone, ever, outrun themselves? Jason Jobin asks these questions and delivers an intimate, masterful story about endlessly circling the block, driving toward his own destruction, trying to kill the thing that’s killing him.
* YASUKO THANH, author of Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains *
