Not an “inspirational cancer memoir,” and pointedly angry at the idea that it should be.

The Undying is Anne Boyer’s account of breast cancer written against the scripts that capitalism, medicine, and literature try to palm off the sick. It moves between hospital rooms, theory, history, care work, and the economics of pharmaceuticals, refusing to turn suffering into a tidy lesson.

Boyer writes with precision about pain, gender, clichés of bravery, and the cost of being ill inside systems designed for efficiency, not care. A major contemporary essay-memoir that treats illness as political, embodied, and literary all at once.

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