Virtual Toronto Lit Up (Book Launch): Choosing Hope

July 23, 2020 @ 8:00 PM
Free Events | Virtual
Cost: FREE

Munira Premji is releasing her memoir, Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers, and will be celebrating its publication with a Toronto Lit Up book launch! Join Mawenzi House and the Toronto International Festival of Authors for this exciting event.

Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers. is the story of how Munira Premji battled three advanced cancers: Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Stage 3 multiple myeloma, and Stage 3 breast cancer, within a period of five years. Written as a series of anecdotes based on entries from a blog the author started shortly after her first diagnosis—when her focus was simply on surviving—it tells an inspirational story about resilience, courage, and hope in the face of overwhelming odds. It explores and shares the author’s experiences at home, in the community, and in hospitals, revealing with utter honesty and catching humour her moments of utter darkness and light, of intense pain and blissful but precarious relief.

Choosing Hope captures the psychological, physical, and emotional trauma of a cancer diagnosis and treatment. It is easy to read and anecdotal in style and will have special appeal to recently diagnosed cancer patients, survivors and their families, to caregivers, and to many others facing health challenges.

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Munira Premji was born in Moshi, Tanzania, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, and immigrated to Canada in 1979.  After being healthy her entire life, she was diagnosed with three aggressive cancers in four years.  Her book, Choosing Hope, is an account of her journey and centres around the themes of identity, loss, perspective, and thriving in the face of adversity. Munira is a seasoned Human Resources practitioner and executive coach who consults on organizational effectiveness and leadership development.  Choosing Hope is her first book.