{"product_id":"now-i-lay-me-down-to-fight-a-poet-writes-her-way-through-cancer-9781514007990","title":"Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIn stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight.\u003c\/strong\u003e Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. She writes in resistance to sickness, of wrestling toward beauty: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eCancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu: Tangling and strangling legitimate life.\u003cbr\u003e Chemo is a killing, a burning out: \u003cbr\u003e Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately\u003cbr\u003e But cancer, did you know that I am a poet?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough it all, she shows what it means to struggle in a battered body and to pray to a God who is near to the broken. Join her in this consideration of mortality and witness her persisting trust in God's unseen ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e IVP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781514007990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Katy Bowser Hutson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43132893659317,"sku":"9781514007990","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_76f6cc9c-5f13-4de9-9aef-5f8f16cf6fde.jpg?v=1695135676","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/now-i-lay-me-down-to-fight-a-poet-writes-her-way-through-cancer-9781514007990","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}