A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Moorjani recounts growing up in Hong Kong in a Hindu family amid Chinese and British influences, her cancer illness and near-death experience, and how she came to interpret recovery, fear, self-worth, and love.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
A first-person voice adds lived texture to a shelf otherwise weighted toward researchers and Western accounts. Her own cultural and family setting should remain part of the story rather than serve as a token example.
Good starting place if…
You want an accessible personal account before comparing clinical studies and cultural interpretations.
Know before you begin…
Moorjani connects her experience and recovery to a spiritual interpretation of healing. Her illness story is one person's account, not evidence that beliefs caused cancer or that self-realization can cure illness; readers facing illness should not be blamed for it.