The Colors I Saw

A Cancer Memoir

Eliza C Walton

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Golden Alley Press
14 September 2019

Memoirs; Surgical oncology; Popular medicine & health; Coping with illness

"Baker, knitter, animal lover, wife, mother - but most of all, a writer. That's how Eliza Walton sees herself. Until, halfway through her MFA studies, a diagnosis of rectal cancer lands on her head. Fear, shame, and dread threaten to pull her under.

How to face an anxiety-laden year of radiation, chemo, and a permanent colostomy?

Family, friends, caregivers, even her animals, all help. But Eliza's pen becomes her best weapon. Chronicling each assault on her body with startling honesty, Eliza uses the act of writing to make sense of her powerlessness in the face of this unspeakable illness. When her vitriolic alter-ego appears, she and Eliza navigate the terror, absurdity, and even the humor, of an uncertain future together.

Neither superficial nor overly sentimental, The Colors I Saw is a riveting metafictional memoir filled with references to the literature that fueled Eliza's imagination and sustained her. It's the story of her deep shame and loss, accepting an unacceptable reality, and the friends and family who helped her survive. In the messy journey from ""You have rectal cancer"" to living a full, if somewhat altered, life, this endearing page-turner is not about whether the author survives, but how."

By: Eliza C Walton
Imprint: Golden Alley Press
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781733305518
ISBN 10: 1733305513
Pages: 342
Publication Date: 14 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eliza C. Walton earned her BA from Bennington College, writing a creative poetry thesis. She earned her MFA in fiction (2010) from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program. After a post-college stint in the editorial department of Rolling Stone magazine, she married and moved to a small farm on the coast of Maine. A writer by nature, she put her pen aside for a time to raise three children among sheep, chickens, ponies and donkeys. She lives and writes in Maine. Eliza has published flash fiction in elimae, Bartleby Snopes, and A cappella Zoo. The Colors I Saw: A Cancer Memoir chronicles her experience with rectal cancer at age 53, exploring how a writer uses her craft to survive cancer treatment.

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The Colors I Saw

A Cancer Memoir

Eliza C Walton

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