The Wild Mandrake - Dundurn

The Wild Mandrake

A Memoir

Available Aug 29th 2023

Paperback
$ 23.99

Description

A young writer on the cusp of adulthood is faced with cancer that keeps coming back.

Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation; these are the milestones of his adulthood, of being “a special case.”

It seems like every time he gets balanced — new writing, love, a job paying more than minimum wage — he’s back in hospital. And he lives. Again and again, he is cured. It is miraculous. A great gift. But never enough.

Told in short glimpses, this story redefines what it means to survive. Jobin brings together the illuminated moments of loss and joy as he navigates chronic illness and builds from it something new and wildly unexpected.

Contributors

Jason Jobin

Jason Jobin’s writing has been longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize, and been published in Cleaver Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and the Sun Magazine. His stories have won a National Magazine Award and been featured in the 2018 and 2019 Journey Prize anthology. He lives in Victoria.

Book Details

Paperback
August 2023
5.5x8.5 in
224 pp
9781459750746
ePub
August 2023
-
224 pp
9781459750753
ePub
August 2023
-
224 pp
9781459750760