The story of a woman, her breast cancer and the people who love her.
Bookbits 2010
Ruth Rakoff, whose two sibling David is a writer for The New Yorker and other sibling Simon is a well-known stand-up comedian, is herself a pretty funny woman. But then she discovered a lump in her breast everything in her busy and full life changed. She calls her new book a memoir of family, food, cancer and her couch. When My World Was Very Small is intensely personal, without ever becoming maudlin.