Synopses & Reviews
Songs from a Lead-Lined Room is a unique and remarkable book rooted in truth and raw experience, and the first memoir to focus on the personal experience of radiation treatment. As with Shea's best-selling fiction, her sharp and insightful wit and her reporter's eye for the most telling and sometimes quirky details inform every page. She shares what she learns about the process of her treatment, her bouts of despair, indignity, and fear, as well as the faux pas, the innocent blunders, and the compassion and caring of her family, friends, and fellow patients
Synopsis
Suzanne Strempek Shea was forty-one and seemingly healthy when she heard the words "You've got cancer." In the midst of completing her fourth novel, she turned to words to make sense of her diagnosis, her disease, and her fears about the future. She kept a journal while she was receiving radiation treatments for her breast cancer, and that writing laid the foundation for this candid, warm, and often humorous memoir of her daily trek into the lead-lined room of the radiation oncology department of her Massachusetts hospital.
About the Author
Suzanne Strempek Shea, winner of the 2000 New England Book Award for Fiction, is the author of Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, and Around Again. She lives and writes in Bondsville, Massachusetts.