This summer I'm facilitating a book group of folks who work at NC State. We are an eclectic group but our first book, The Fault in our Stars, moved us all. I had read the book when it was first published and it was powerful to revisit it. The book is called b some a "Cancer book" (although as Rebecca Rosen from The Atlantic puts it, not a bullshit cancer book). My memories of the book were that it was a beautiful love story with a life-changing tragedy for the characters and I've often left the specifics of the Cancer experiences out of my conversations about the book. Upon re-reading it; it's hard to imagine leaving out the Cancer experiences of the characters and how much the disease is woven through the book.
In our conversations, there were those who thought of the book as a book about Cancer and those who focused more on the relationships but every reader was moved by it and hopefully more will check out some of Green's other works.
In our conversations, there were those who thought of the book as a book about Cancer and those who focused more on the relationships but every reader was moved by it and hopefully more will check out some of Green's other works.