Description: With humanity, irreverence, poignancy, and a definite anti-victimhood bias, Kathy Rich explores the experience of cancer and staying alive. First diagnosed at 32, with a recurrence and bone-marrow transplant 8 years later, Ms. Rich knows the terrain well, and provides a guide for real people entering it. Hip, searching, wise-cracking, frequently wise, she chronicles her life over ten years in two time zones -- cancer time, marked by the progression of treatments, fogged in with "chemo-brain; " and real world time, where love lives, careers, vacations and 401k plans still mater. Here's what cancer support groups are really like, as well as quack alternate practitioners, dating without hair, working with a drugged out brain, and why cancer patients so often smoke cigarettes. Not a sanctimonious "how I found God" inspirational or a "poor me" memoir, The Red Devil amounts to a tour through Cancer-Land with a smart, hip, fun woman who has been brought to her knees, only to get up and learn to dance, with grace, even.

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