When a young woman in her early 30s named Iris finds out she has a fast-growing, inoperable cancer she seeks out a blogging community of her fellows and begins to write about her experience, and her story becomes the basis for an epistolary novel for the digital age.
Through Iris's entries, and email exchanges between her boss and friend, Smith, her sister, Jade and others, we get an insight into what it feels like to be young, sick and know you won't be living long enough to accomplish your goals and follow your dreams, and also about the nature of family relationships, friendship in its many forms, love and grief.
It's a unique treatment of a difficult subject and very insightful. We've all struggled with our feelings when we are faced with the serious illnesses and potential deaths of family and friends, but when it is one's own life, it's obviously a different matter.
Adkins provides a moving and sensitive take on what it means to be seriously ill, and how it impacts friends and loved ones.
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