A raw and hilarious memoir about beating a stage four cancer diagnosis and the malignant relationship that caused it. Kate Rice’s life looks pretty good. Ex ski bum. Globe-trotting reporter. Two beautiful kids. Successful husband. Triplex apartment with yard in New York City’s Upper West Side. Lake house. The proverbial dog. Volunteer work, parties, Broadway theater. Skiing. Surfing. Family vacations all over Europe and South America. But behind her cheery facade, she hides a secret. A secret that almost kills her. She abandons her seemingly safe—but actually deadly—seat in the audience. She steps into the spotlight singing rock ’n roll in a legendary club in Greenwich Village, doing stand-up comedy in basement clubs on the Lower East Side. And when she gets that fearsome diagnosis, she leaves New York in the dust, finding her cure in science, in the love of family and friends, in the mountains she finally returns to and ultimately, within herself.