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The Gifts of My Mothers
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The Gifts of My Mothers is a poignant and deeply personal collection of letters, poems, and reflections that traverse the raw landscape of illness, loss, and resilience. Through hauntingly beautiful prose, the author lays bare her journey with cancer - battling not just the disease but the grief, fear, and love that intertwine in its wake. From tender letters to family and searing addresses to death itself, these pages pulse with vulnerability and strength, exploring the weight of inherited pain, the fragility of life, and the unbreakable bonds of kinship. With unflinching honesty, Randa Shami grapples with infertility, mortality, and the echoes of her mothers' legacies, both blessing and burden. A testament to survival in the face of devastation, this book is a luminous meditation on what it means to fight, to love, and to endure when the world feels darkest.
ISBN : 978-1-83543-919-7
Scheduled: 05/05/2026
Pages : 92
Size : 205x140
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
Randa Shami
Randa Shami enjoys writing poetry about her experiences of joy, loss and as a way to find light in the darkest of times. At the age of eleven she lost her mother to ovarian cancer, having watched her battle the disease for ten years. Twenty years later she too was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, having inherited a mutated gene called BRCA1, which had been passed down from her mother, and her mother’s mother. Through writing, she found her strength to keep fighting and found she could make sense of something that she felt had no rationale.
