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"I have breasts tumor." When Good Day America anchor Amy Robach exposed her shocking diagnosis on live television set in November 2013, the seasoned information reporter embarked on the most challenging and illuminating trip of her life. On this seductive memoir, she retraces the a year pursuing her announcement and talks candidly, for the first time, about how exactly her illness affected her family life and her relationship, tapped in to her deepest doubts and talents, and transformed her in ways she never can have imagined. Only weeks previously, in September 2013, ABC producers asked Robach to get an on-air mammogram to emphasize Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Her first instinct was to state no - there was no record of tumor in her family, she was only 40 years old, and she felt strange drawing attention to herself when she experienced no personal link with the issue. (She'd been indicating to get her first mammogram that season but had quickly "lost" the prescription.) Her colleague, Robin Roberts, herself a tumor survivor, convinced her to do it with one particular phrase: "I could pretty much guarantee it'll save a life." To Robach's surprise, the life she saved was her own: assessments exposed malignant tumors in her breasts, and she immediately underwent a bilateral mastectomy, followed by half a year of chemotherapy treatments. Better is greater than a story of illness and recovery. Robach recounts the day she and her partner, Andrew Shue, acquired the terrible information; the issue of showing her two young daughters; and the difficulties of having on with the every day obligations of parenting, nurturing a fledgling second relationship, and managing a public career. She lays bare the emotional toll of her experience and mines her history for the significant moments that provided her the resilience to handle each day. And she explains the outstanding support network that lifted her when she flattened.
