Everything you need to understand or teach Medicine Men by Alice Adams.
Healing, both physical and emotional, is the dominant theme of the novel, as characters confront their own mortality, both in body and in spirit. The tumor in Molly's brain has a parallel in the emotional wound created by the death of her husband, Paul, a death made doubly hurtful by the fact that the two had decided to separate only shortly before.
Cancer becomes a metaphor for a kind of unfocused doom which...
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