Embracing the Breakage with Christine Chen

Our guest Christine Chen teaches humanities at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is a professional violinist and less professional wrangler of 2 kids. 

Claire talks to Christine about picking up the pieces after cancer and trying to let go of the desire to return to the way things were before.

Christine's Cancer Lit:

Anne Boyer, The Undying

Nina Riggs, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

Paul Kalanathi, When Breath Becomes Air

Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Christine's Fiction List:

Herman Melville, Moby Dick;

Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Albert Camus, The Plague

Rachel Cusk, Kudos, Transit, Outline

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