<p><b>Shortlistedfor the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best FirstBook!</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the 2009 RelitAward!</b><br></p><p><i>Cleavage</i> tracks thepatchwork musings of Leah, who, at twenty-four years old and two years into arelationship, discovers she has breast cancer. Told in fragments reminiscent of<i>A Complicated Kindness</i> by Miriam Toews,<i>Cleavage</i> details Leah’s struggles with her illness andtreatments, the conflict between her disease and her boyfriend, her ambivalencetoward her job, and a long-standing feud with her mother and onlysister.</p><p><b>Shortlistedfor the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best FirstBook!</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the 2009 RelitAward!</b><br></p><p><i>Cleavage</i> tracks thepatchwork musings of Leah, who, at twenty-four years old and two years into arelationship, discovers she has breast cancer. Told in fragments reminiscent of<i>A Complicated Kindness</i> by Miriam Toews,<i>Cleavage</i> details Leah’s struggles with her illness andtreatments, the conflict between her disease and her boyfriend, her ambivalencetoward her job, and a long-standing feud with her mother and onlysister.</p>