Hysterectomy Waltz

"It''s truly powerful, and acrid, and barbed, and filled with wonderful, and unexpected, turns of phrase and above all it''s shocking in its directness and understated anger and sadness and fear… it''s an amazing piece of writing."—Cynthia Ozick

Imagine being told before the age of forty that because you have an ovarian cyst, the surgeon wants to take out the "whole kit and caboodle." Imagine being...