Book Talk and Meet the Author

Please join us for a fun and meaningful book talk with Gila Pfeffer, author of the recently published memoir NEARLY DEPARTED: Adventures in Loss Cancer and Other Inconveniences. Gila uses humor to tell the heartbreaking story of losing both her parents to cancer at young ages, and what she did to avoid their same fate. Spoiler alert: she got cancer anyway and her book is a powerful reminder about how far we must go when it comes to breast cancer prevention. Gila will answer questions about why she is so vocal about being a breast cancer pre-vivor AND survivor, the importance of genetic testing, how a sense of humor plays a crucial role in facing adversity and why it’s more important now than ever to tell her story through the lens of being an Orthodox Jewish woman.

Books available for purchase at the event.