MADHULIKA SIKKAis a veteran broadcast journalist with decades of experience. Among other media outlets, she has worked at NPR News and ABC News.
A Booklist Top 10 Science & Health Book of the Year
"Breast-cancer patients will fall in love with Sikka…a funny,
chatty, and honest storyteller….Just what the doctor
ordered."- Booklist (starred)
"[Sikka's] charming alphabetic compilation...is a warm and fuzzy
friend to keep close during the cancer journey. 'B' is for buying
multiple copies." - Library Journal (starred)
"Sikka's voice is calm and earnest, poetic and descriptive, and
occasionally even uplifting. Those who find cancer in their lives,
whether first-hand or through a friend or family member, will
appreciate the raw but supportive voice that emerges here."-
Publishers Weekly
"Sometimes humorous, always honest and straightforward, this little
book offers the perfect combination of practical advice and
personal musings to help any woman, her family and her friends
handle the complicated road through Cancerland."- Kirkus
Reviews
"A Breast Cancer Alphabet is like having a chat with someone who’s
walked the walk and has a thing or two to share with you about it
which just might make your walk a bit less scary."- Nancy's
Point
"Thank goodness for Madhulika Sikka! She is neither a warrior nor a
hero. Her breast cancer made her neither sexy nor spiritually
enlightened. She is simply a real woman with a real illness who
tells it true: with grief, anger, wit and great authenticity." -
Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches
From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
“A Breast Cancer Alphabet is a brisk, user-friendly ABC of dealing
with the disaster of cancer and how to get through it with a smile.
It is a remarkably insightful and sensitive guide to making the
best of the worst, all delivered with Madhulika’s wit and vital
energy.” - Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair, the New
Yorker, and the Daily Beast
"Madhulika Sikka is the honest-talking-advice-giving-big
sister-sage-support group that every girl needs to help navigate
the world of 'cancerland'. A Breast
Cancer Alphabet is the definitive how-to go-to book." -
Marisa Acocella Marchetto, author of Cancer Vixen
"Madhulika Sikka's A Breast Cancer Alphabet is brilliantly
researched, smart, and personal - an unvarnished primer of what
every woman needs to know about the diagnosis, treatment, and
consequences of living with breast cancer. Her practical
advice from "A" to "Z" is exactly what I wish I'd known when
I was first diagnosed. With the trained eye and ear of a top-flight
journalist, she demystifies the disease, telling you everything you
forgot to ask that no one else will share. Reading it will help you
recognize, and even laugh, at your worst fears. "B" is for "Brava",
Madhulika - for your honesty and creativity in guiding us on a
journey none of us chose to take. It is a lot easier when you have
A Breast Cancer Alphabet at your side." - Andrea Mitchell, NBC News
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
"This useful and often amusing little book should be the first
present you give someone who’s been diagnosed with breast
cancer. Its practicality extends from sound advice (“drugs
are your friends”) to the inclusion of pages for notes at the
end. By presenting her own experience in a wry and
matter-of-fact manner, Madhulika Sikka removes taboos in talking
about sex, or looks or the desire on some days to just quit
soldiering on through the whole deal. It won’t make having
breast cancer easier but it will make the dread disease and its
treatments less mysterious. That’s a gift indeed." -
Cokie Roberts, journalist and author of We Are Our Mothers'
Daughters
"Breast cancer is a topic no woman wants to learn about first-hand.
But should it happen to you, Madhulika Sikka’s A Breast Cancer
Alphabet is an ideal primer for before, during and after the
experience. Offering the kind of real-world advice that can only
come from someone who’s lived to tell the tale, Sikka’s book is
required reading for anyone in search of a book that will bring you
up to speed quickly, gently, and with genuine empathy."- Micki
Myers, author of It's Probably Nothing...
"'T' should be 'Thank you, Madhulika,' for writing a witty,
practical and honest book. Too many cancer books out there gloss
over the uncomfortable realities of living with a life-threatening
illness. A Breast Cancer Alphabet is a must-have for women
with cancer." - Suleika Jaouad, New York Times columnist
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