A01=Walela Nehanda
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Product details
- ISBN 9780593529508
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 137 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2025
- Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don’t use their correct pronouns, and hordes of 'well-meaning' but patronising people offering unsolicited advice as Walela navigates rocky personal relationships and shares their story online.
But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from another realm. Walela's diagnosis becomes a catalyst for their self-realisation. As they fill out forms in the insurance office in downtown Los Angeles or travel to therapy in wealthier neighbourhoods, they begin to understand that cancer is where all forms of their oppressed identities intersect.
In Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir, the author details a galvanizing account of their survival despite the U.S. medical system, and of the struggle to face death unafraid.
Walela Nehanda is a nonbinary cultural worker, stem cell transplant and cancer survivor, and mental health advocate born and based in Los Angeles, California.
