Abracadabra by Sharon Solwitz
"First round of chemo, topo-cycle, two weeks. Hair intact the first week/ We think, He's lucky. One of the lucky ones. It starts to fal lbut leaves a thin layer, ;ank and fine, pale brown all over his head. I touch it gently so as not to dislodge".
"Round two: Adriamycin in hospital, forty eight-hour drip. Hes bald unto the eyebrows and eyelashes. EVen the nose hairs are gone. Nose continually runs. I love his bare scalp, warm to my cheek and lips. Alive and warm".
"I'm not afraid. Abracadabra. open sesame. I want him back in my house in his room, at the table eating food I've cooked, fighting with his brother, talking on the phone drawing his teddy pictures, doing his homework or not doing it, even playing video games, which I discouraged, or upstairs asleep behind the protective wall of his stuffed animals."
The writer's writing style is very experimental and I've noticed it is similar to free writing.The author develops a sense of character of herself missing her own son whom she lost to a cancer battle. Even though she knows her son is dead she cant help but miss him and wanting to bring him back like magic in an instant. She keeps talking about how she wishes she could say the simple word "Abracadabra" (words that magicians mostly use) and her son would pop back in her life. What made the author interesting or sympathetic to me was that her writing style and her expressing of her emotions towards how much she missed her son and also with the reminiscing. What grabbed me the most on Sharon Solwitz story was everything that was incorporated about her life on her own son, from telling the story on when he was born until the day he died, and the struggles she went through his cancer battle and accepting the fact that her loved one was deceased.
I think this memoir was published because it was based on a real story on her life and it was successful with other readers because maybe they could relate to it.
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