Love in a Time of Leukemia

My friend Cristina Nehring has a new--I almost typed "book." It is not a book, however, but a compact yet capacious and passionate essay-memoir just published in Amazon's new Kindle Singles arcade for short-form prose and fiction: "Compelling Ideas Expressed at Their Natural Length," an antidote to all that wordiness running amuck in the neighborhood.

It is the perfect format for Cristina's Journey to the Edge of Light, which tells the improbable, traumatic, and finally inspiriting story of what befell her and her daughter Eurydice following the publication of Nehring's A Vindication of Love, which was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review and seemed to set her up pretty on the up-ramp of literary fame and success--until life intervened. Eurydice, born with Down Syndrome, was diagnosed with leukemia and the outside world shrunk into a high-tech hospital and a singular fight for recovery and life.

I've read it, I recommend it, and at only $1.99 to download you can't plead poverty as an excuse not to give it a try. (Also, you can download a free sample.)

The subject and title of this KIndle single looks compelling as well.

Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/01/my-friend-cristina-nehring-has.html

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