{"product_id":"evoke-book-d-m-simmons-9781737630203","title":"Evoke","description":"The journals are those of a girl I once knew - who had cancer and wrote about her experiences. She wanted to share her story, in a way that would have helped her: in a book about having cancer as a teen - written by a teen who experienced it. She wasn't lost in battle, but she's been gone a long time; and I haven't been able to forget her, or let her go. The story seems unfamiliar, and yet I know it by heart. It feels like yesterday, but seems like a lifetime ago. It's the story I never wrote - because it was already written; and at the heart of it is my journey with cancer: a muse, a curse, and a blessing. I've read the book before, but I never closed the first chapter: a book of journals - written by a girl who had cancer. Cancer is a part of my story, and being a survivor is part of my identity, but it is not my entire identity as I felt it was when I was younger. At the end of my second treatment, I decided I was going to write my story and publish it. I even thought of the perfect title for my book: Two-Timed: An Adolescent Cancer Memoir. I thought of it because I felt two-timed by my own body, whose very defense system had attacked itself, and it had happened to me twice. But I didn't write the story. The years went by, and I decided I could not very well write an adolescent memoir when I was well into my twenties, but I still had my journals - all the journals. Several more years elapsed until now - twenty three years after the journey began - I am finally writing the story.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51050124149009,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51050127098129,"sku":"NIN9781737630203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1737630206.jpg?v=1750832391","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/evoke-book-d-m-simmons-9781737630203","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}