Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir Style:Hardcover without the repression he'd carried

without the repression he'd carried for so long

racial and social justice policies

and the movement from each piece to the next--along with the white space that surrounds each fragment--serve as important fissures

a physical place for feeling and challenging the beating pulse of sexual progress

Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir Style:Hardcover without the repression he'd carriedBy Walela Nehanda A searing 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 dont use their correct pronouns,