Pretty is What Changes

Author: Jessica Queller

Summary: After watching her grandmother and then her mother succumb to cancer, Jessica Quellar has herself tested for the BRCA gene mutations. The test comes back positive. This book chronicles her journey through her mother's and grandmother's illnesses up through her own prophylactic surgery.

Recommendation: Alternately gut-wrenching and hilarious, Quellar brings fierce humanity to the reality of breast cancer. Faced with her odds, would I make the choices she did? Having read her story would make my decision easier to bear. I recommend this book without reservation.

Hearts: 5