Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

by Walela Nehanda

Debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout.

When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593529499
• ISBN13: 9780593529492
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Kokila
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.7" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12