A darkly comic novel in which a 40something mother mistakenly gets a terminal diagnosis but refuses to relinquish the spotlight when she's told it's a mistake. What do you do if you have two bratty teenage kids who don't give you the time of day? What do you do if your husband is more interested in his remote than you? What do you do if you're forever being compared to your perfect sister - who just happened to marry your perfect boyfriend? And what do you do if you're told you have stage 4 breast cancer?
Well, if you're Raquel Rose, you tell your family your diagnosis, and then you watch them go from treating you like dirt to treating you like a queen. Then you go on to raise unprecedented amounts of money for breast cancer research. And you find you love this new life of yours, no matter how fleeting it may be. So when the doctor calls to tell her that there was a mistake and she's actually perfectly healthy, instead of sharing her good news, Raquel can't relinquish the sudden attention and love from her family.
