Notes

• "Sitting in the Gentleman’s VIP Strip Club - the only woman there with her shirt on - Geralyn Lucas tries to blend in. It is her first time at a strip club and she has come to make the biggest decision of her life. Having recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School and landed her dream job at 20/20, the last thing twenty-seven -year-old Geralyn expects to hear is a breast cancer diagnosis. And there is one part of the diagnosis that no one will discuss with her: what it means to be a young girl with cancer in a beauty-obsessed culture." "Trying to find herself, while losing her vibrancy and her looks, Geralyn discovers a story of self-acceptance that will inspire all women. Although her book is explicitly about a period of time during which she was driven by fear and uncertainty about the future, Geralyn managed a transformation that will encourage all women under siege to discover their own courage and beauty. The important and outrageous lessons of Why I Wore Lipstick come fast and furious, with the same gusto Geralyn has learned to bring to every moment of her life."–BOOK JACKET