Unveiling the Raw Truth: Ariel Gore’s Rehearsals for Dying Challenges Our Perceptions of Love and Cancer
But Earl is only one of many persons, friends, and interview subjects that Ariel introduces the reader to. As we learn more and more about the unique horrors Deena is forced to experience — the metastasis is unrelenting and the treatments are debilitating — Ariel brings in persons like Sia, someone Ariel knew from her Portland days, whose breast cancer also metastasizes to her liver. It is from Sia that we learn another horrifying aspect of breast cancer in the United States:
“Black women have a 4% lower chance of getting breast cancer but a 40% higher likelihood of dying from breast cancer compared to white women. Do that math. And please don’t gaslight me into imagining that the level of care I’m getting has nothing to do with my race.”
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