My love she speaks like silence / Without ideals of violence / She doesn't have to say she's faithful / Yet she's true, like ice, like fire. Yeah, that's how I saw her. And that's how she let me see her, as we listened time and again to ...
Author: Enrique Fernández
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
ISBN: 9781633539471
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 144
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The renowned Cuban-American journalist reflects on a life of desire and the waning of sexuality after cancer treatment in this poignant memoir. “Two days ago, the effects of the androgen-deprivation shot a doctor’s assistant had injected under my skin a month earlier kicked in. And now I don’t want.” When a cancer diagnosis, and then various treatments, eliminate libido, the echoes of love and desire in the form of memories remain. What happens to a life when sexual expression is lost? Enrique Fernández’s Pretty to Think So weaves questions of sex, mortality, and identity with a lyricism that readers will not soon forget.