Unveiling the Raw Truth: Ariel Gore’s Rehearsals for Dying Challenges Our Perceptions of Love and Cancer

Unveiling the Raw Truth: Ariel Gore’s Rehearsals for Dying Challenges Our Perceptions of Love and Cancer

Reviewed by Brian Watson

book cover of Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer by Ariel Gore; orange background with illustration of a butterfly wing, with random images inside, such as a moons, stars, an eye, flowers, and playing cardsI wrote, and then mysteriously lost — I hate you, too, Microsoft Word — the first draft of this review a week ago. On most days, I believe in portents, which became one of the reasons I fell in love with Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer (Amethyst Editions; March 2025) by Ariel Gore. And when Word abandoned my draft, I wondered if the Universe had considered my draft to be unworthy. Spooked, I put the review’s reconstitution aside until this damp Sunday morning. Time to try again, with auto-save enabled.

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