Katy Hutson

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  Now I Lay Me Down To Fight

  $16.00

  In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy’s words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. She writes in resistance to sickness, of wrestling toward beauty:

  Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu:

  *Tangling and strangling legitimate life.
  *Chemo is a killing, a burning out:
  *Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately
  *But cancer, did you know that I am a poet?

  Through it all, she shows what it means to struggle in a battered body and to pray to a God who is near to the broken. Join her in this consideration of mortality and witness her persisting trust in God’s unseen ways.

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