Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi (translated by Jennifer Feeley)

Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi (translated by Jennifer Feeley)In 1989, the cult Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer, and began writing to make sense of her illness and its treatment. The book she wrote was heralded as the first Chinese language work to cast off the stigma of speaking frankly about disease, a disarmingly honest and personal account of her experience of a mastectomy and subsequent recovery. Mourning a Breast takes a kaleidoscopic approach to the experience of illness,

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