Reviews for A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

The average rating for A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-03-11 00:00:00 Stephen Brady The book did contribute a few aspects to my research. The interviewers provide a good set of questions and a good logical questioning to the subjects. However, the actual analysis of the responses was pretty much non existent and the authors appeared to enter a specific interview and a research at large with a very premeditated notion of the answers they were supposed to get. The theme of identity as expressed through art and the transnational experience were not as prominent as I would have expected, with the stories concentrating but little in the transitions and the effects of these transitions in the work of the subjects.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-11-16 00:00:00 Chuck Mackin Reading I Am Not My Breast Cancer is like attending a support group for women with breast cancer, only better. Instead of hearing the experiences of one or a few women, the reader shares the cancer journey with hundreds of women. The 800 women who participated in the original project from which the book is drawn are from all across the United States and from several other countries as well. They shared their feelings and experiences with openness and honesty. They laughed and cried together, gave each other advice, and bonded with each other. Ruth Peltason took those many and varied threads and wove them lovingly into this book. I Am Not My Breast Cancer is not a medical resource, it is a practical resource. It is not the story of one woman's breast cancer, it is the distillation of hundreds of women's experiences with breast cancer--young women, women in midlife, older women, women with early stage disease and women with metastatic disease. Ms. Peltason, herself a two time breast cancer survivor, treats each woman's experience with dignity and respect. Any woman touched by breast cancer will find herself in the pages of this book, and it will help those around her understand a little better what she may be going through. Cancer centers and doctors' offices should be sure this volume is added to their libraries--it fills a void and meets a need like no other book out there. As a breast cancer survivor, I say, "Thank you, Ms. Peltason, for writing I Am Not My Breast Cancer!"