Gail Konop Baker was a runner, yoga practitioner, doctors wife, and lifelong subscriber to Prevention magazine. But right before her forty-sixth birthday, she heard the words that would forever change her life: Just to be safe, I think we should biopsy. It was the beginning of her yearlong battle with breast cancer and its fallouta battle that would upstage any midlife crisis shed worried was waiting in the wings. Cancer Is a Bitch is her raw, moving, and funny account of juggling midlife, motherhood, and marriage with a rogue booband, ultimately, triumphing. It will, as author Lolly Winston said, crack [you] up one minute, then bring [you] to tears the next.