Five: Elizabeth A. Sargent: Books

Posted on February 21, 2009


Editorial Reviews

Product Description
As engaging as it is insightful, Five by Elizabeth A. Sargent infuses the female soul with magic and wanderlust. Truly a delightful and inspired read, this memoir basks in the glory of life as only a survivor can. While a great part of this autobiography takes place during the author’s fight with breast cancer, the best parts forgo the treatment and work as a dreamscape about loss, specifically experiencing the premature loss of her parents and friends, and lighthearted banter about losing weight and losing men. Sargent also compares the seven good things about losing one’s hair to balancing a checkbook, and moving. Through her journey, she learns how to receive life, live above the challenges, and meet fate head on. She greets suffering as others would make a lunch date, all in all, a death-defying and harrowing journey that is not without irony, humor, and a lot of heart.

From the Author
Hi — I’m Elizabeth. Everyone writes a Breast Cancer book. Just look on Amazon. I guess it is because you are awake at odd hours of the day and you have no one to talk to!

I wrote this book during the 9 month trip down the rabbit hole of my breast cancer treatment at age 34, but it includes writings that began during the summer after my mother’s death when I was 18 and continued up to the present.

This is not just a book about breast cancer. One of my mom’s friends says it is a coming of age novel and I thank her. It is about the pounds I wanted to lose and didn’t and then did and the men I didn’t want to lose and did. It is about the friends I lost and the ones I kept. Always it is about my mom whom I kept even as she was gone.

And it is always about me because that is the gift that breast cancer gave me. Getting to know me.

One of my friends says this book helped her to understand larger philosophical and spiritual issues — things we saw on Oprah — which is killer. I do spend time writing about them because cancer makes you do that. If I can make something make sense to someone then that is huge.

I hope you enjoy reading FIVE. It may make you cry and I hope that you feel better afterwards — I did.

Thank you so much — Elizabeth

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