A review by markusmoreau
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

5.0

Since I have started reading Audre Lorde last year, every text that I have encountered has blown me away on a different level. Going through a time of grief in my own life, having lost someone very important to cancer recently, this little gem of a book has given me so much hope, for which I am forever grateful. Combining the personal and political, as well as seeing the beauty in despair, Lorde's Cancer Journals are a treasure that I will read again, again, and again. The sentence that says it all: "In the recognition of the existence of love lies the answer to despair" (6).