Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Geralyn Lucas
Open Road Media
Having recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School and landed her dream job at 20/20, the last thing twenty-seven-year-old Geralyn expects to hear is a breast cancer diagnosis. And there is one part of the diagnosis that no one will discuss with her: what it means to be a young woman with cancer in a beauty-obsessed culture. Trying to find herself, while losing her vibrancy and her looks, Geralyn embarks on a<span class='showMoreLessContentElement' style='display: none;'> road of self-acceptance that will inspire all women. Although her book is explicitly about a period of time when she was driven by fear and uncertainty about the future, Geralyn managed a transformation that will encourage all women under siege to discover their own courage and beauty. The important and outrageous lessons of WHY I WORE LIPSTICK come fast and furious with the same gusto that Geralyn has learned to bring to every aspect of her life.</span>    <span class='showMoreLessControlElement showMoreLessInline'> <span>Read more...</span></span>   </div>  <br> Abstract:            Having recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School and landed her dream job at 20/20, the last thing twenty-seven-year-old Geralyn expects to hear is a breast cancer diagnosis. And there is one part of the diagnosis that no one will discuss with her: what it means to be a young woman with cancer in a beauty-obsessed culture. Trying to find herself, while losing her vibrancy and her looks, Geralyn embarks on a road of self-acceptance that will inspire all women. Although her book is explicitly about a period of time when she was driven by fear and uncertainty about the future, Geralyn managed a transformation that will encourage all women under siege to discover their own courage and beauty. The important and outrageous lessons of WHY I WORE LIPSTICK come fast and furious with the same gusto that Geralyn has learned to bring to every aspect of her life