![]() In cancer books, she explains, "the cancer person starts a charity that raises money to fight cancer," which "reminds the cancer person of the essential goodness of humanity and makes him/her feel loved and encouraged because s/he will leave a cancer-curing legacy." "But it's not a cancer book," Hazel says, "because cancer books suck." An Imperial Affliction (or AIA, as Hazel calls it) is narrated by a girl named Anna with a rare blood cancer. She worries that when she, "professional sick person," dies, "they'd have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I'd ever done was Have Cancer."Īugustus shares a passion for Hazel's favorite novel, a novel imagined by Green. She's angry and funny, and most delightful of all, thinks about what her parents must be thinking.
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