The Yellow World: How Fighting for My Life Taught Me How to Live

✍ Scribed by Espinosa, Albert

• Book ID: 108649654
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 345 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345538123

✦ Synopsis

A sensational memoir with all the emotional power of The Fault in Our Stars, The Yellow World is the story of cancer and survival that has moved and inspired readers around the world.

My heroes don't wear red capes. They wear red bands.

Albert Espinosa never wanted to write a book about cancer--so he didn't. Instead, he shares his most touching, funny, tragic, and happy memories in the hopes that others, healthy and sick alike, can draw the same strength and vitality from them.

At thirteen, Espinosa was diagnosed with cancer, and he spent the next ten years in and out of hospitals, undergoing one daunting procedure after another, starting with the amputation of his left leg. After going on to lose a lung and half of his liver, he was finally declared cancer-free. Only then did he realize that the one thing sadder than dying is not knowing how to live. In this rich and rewarding book, Espinosa takes us into what he calls "the yellow...