Every Sunday this month, I’ll post a link to one of my favorite pieces of nonfiction. These are the stories that make you want to curl up with a cup of coffee and stay put until you’ve finished the last word. Happy reading!

A few years before Angelina Jolie announced her preventive double mastectomy on the pages of the New York Times, the paper told the story of another woman facing the same choice. Cancer Free at 33, but Weighing a Mastectomy is a deeply personal account that weaves the facts of science and medicine together with the emotions of fear and love.

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