Tornado

When award-winning author Mary Anne Mohanraj learned she had breast cancer, she immediately began recording the details in her blog. Tornado is her honest, day-by-day account of diagnosis, chemo, surgery, radiation, and reconstruction, over a three-year period.

One out of eight women gets breast cancer. You know someone who has it, or work with someone, or may have been diagnosed yourself. This is a book for all of us, but especially for anyone facing a breast cancer diagnosis for yourself, or for someone you love.

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Remember that plant ID apps sometimes get it wrong.

Remember that plant ID apps sometimes get it wrong — my phone thinks that first pic is lily-of-the-valley, but it is very wrong — that’s puschkinia (aka striped squill), a spring ephemeral. Lily-of-the-valley typically blooms around Mother’s Day for us; I expect it’ll be earlier this year, but not for another month still. Easy to tell the difference because puschkinia doesn’t have that heavenly scent. It is very cute, though, and we love it anyway.

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I haven’t had a chance to even stop

I’m behind on everything, it feels like, but I haven’t actually dropped any critical balls yet, I think? I’m honestly not sure, because it’s been so hectic the last week that I haven’t had a chance to even stop and make decent to-do lists; I’ve just been going off what clearly needed to be done at any given moment (like buying a car to replace the one the dealer managed to total, and scheduling a

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This one has a sunroof, which I adore.

I didn’t show you the new car; it’s much like the old one, but this one has a sunroof, which I adore. It’s been a hard week, but driving home on a gorgeous day with the windows and sunroof open, music blasting, was pretty great. I love wind. Give me ALL the wind.

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Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.

 

Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org).  She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  www.maryannemohanraj.com

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Vegan Serendib 99%
Jump Space 95%
Cancer Log 50%