5/22/2023 0 Comments The cost of hope by amanda bennett![]() ![]() ![]() Foley, at a raucous, late-night cocktail party. Bennett, then a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, meets her future husband, one Terrence B. ![]() The memoir opens in Peking (it was still Peking in those days), China, in 1983. Bennett, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, uses the short, punchy syntax of her trade to propel the story along. However, it is the words in the title, cost and hope, that immediately resonate with the oncology community at large-patients with cancer hang on the hope of a cure, and doctors increasingly worry about how the rising cost of care might hamper their ability to treat patients. After all, cancer is not only a disease, but also a very personalized destination, sometimes to a dark and isolated place. ![]() Bennett’s opening sentence implicitly foreshadows her husband’s death. “It almost always begins in darkness, my memory’s trip back to China where Terrence and I meet.” So begins Amanda Bennett’s moving new memoir, The Cost of Hope, the story of an intensely devoted marriage, cruelly shortened by the cancer that killed her husband. ![]()
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