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The Pebble Path

Returning Home from a Forest of Shadows

by Jan Hasak

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Breast cancer gets a makeover as fairy tale.

Breast cancer! Few words strike more fear into one’s heart than these.

Yet the author faced that very diagnosis, twice! How did she cope? By picking up pebbles of wisdom like Princess Fanciful did in the fairy-tale world of The Pebble Path.

Following her cancer diagnosis, Fanciful travels down a shadowy path through the forest of treatment. Along the way she expresses her thoughts through poetry. The poems of The Pebble Path allow the reader to contemplate cancer’s multiple facets. Sometimes the poetry is laugh-out-loud boisterous, sometimes meditative. It is always honest.

Since cancer generates emotions that tend toward the universal, The Pebble Path will resonate with any reader whose life has been interrupted by malignancy or who works in a cancer-related field. The ogres, hags and other residents populating the forest of The Pebble Path will fascinate those searching for meaning and humor in their lives.

In The Pebble Path, Jan Hasak gathers up the pebbles she left behind to mark her triumphant journey back home from a nightmare filled with fear, uncertainty, pain and loss. The author weaves together a courageous and unique healing story — part fairy tale, part prose — that will inspire and ring true for many breast cancer survivors.

—Nancy Richards, author of Heal and Forgive: Forgiveness in the Face of

Abuse

The journey of cancer is a rocky road, but Jan Hasak manages to mark the way with her gems of poems. Any cancer patient will recognize the emotional turmoil and triumphs that Hasak elicits so skillfully with her poetry. In a world full of technical advice, Jan seeks to touch the soul — and she succeeds! The Pebble Path is an uplifting book for any stage of the journey.

—Teresa K. Matthews, breast cancer survivor and author of Cancer: The Adventure of Your Life

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Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 114 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jun 22, 2010)
ISBN10: 143275419X
ISBN13: 9781432754198
Genre: DRAMA / General

Author Information...

Jan HasakJan Hasak is a motivational speaker and author. At seminars, support groups, church events, and businesses she shares how she maintains a "cancer thriver” attitude. As an attorney at a leading biotechnology firm, she wrote patents for over 20 years. Her first book, Mourning Has Broken: Reflections on Surviving Cancer, chronicles her journey through two bouts with breast cancer. She can be reached at jan@janhasak.com or through her website at www.janhasak.com.

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