Bald In The Land Of Big Hair: True Confessions Of A Woman With Cancer

"Chemotherapy," my friend Sally shook her head sympathetically when I was first diagnosed. But then her face brightened. "You're gonna get so skinny!"

Texas is big. Dang big. Big meat, big hats and big, big hair. So what's a girl to do when, thanks to chemotherapy, she has to battle cancer without even her God-given right of Big Hair? If you're Joni Rodgers, you use your unfailing ability to see the humour in the darkest situations, whether it's the challenge of how to maintain an (un)healthy sex life, or keeping your waistline while on a diet of steroids.

Full of the blackest wit, the fiercest honesty, and the snappiest one-liners, 'Bald In The Land Of Big Hair' is simply an extraordinary book. Written with the same unblinking courage with which she faced her cancer, Joni's story is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit. And the importance of a darn good wig.