My Father's Daughter: A Story of Survival, Life, and Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancers

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As a child, Lindy Bruzzone knew how she would die. It would be like everyone else in her family who had passed away from cancer-her father, his father, and his mother. For them, it was how life ended. In My Father's Daughter, Bruzzone tells the story of a family confronting challenges beginning in the early 1600s when they crossed the ocean seeking freedom. They migrated westward and settled in Los Angeles County in the 1890s. It was there members of her grandfather's family died, one by one, of cancer. She offers childhood memories of growing up within the security of small town, Carson City, Nevada, where her parents live humbly and teach their children to care for themselves in the event cancer strikes again. She challenges mortality-first as a teen, then as a single mother working within California prison yards of Soledad and later at San Quentin, and supervising the most violent parolees on California's mean streets of Oakland and Richmond. She works as an investigative consultant while she waits her turn for cancer to strike. My Father's Daughter discusses the day she was finally diagnosed with late staged cancer. Instead of the ending of a life, a new beginning occurs. Bruzzone undertakes a genetic journey working with her medical team to understand and live with the hereditary cancer condition of Lynch syndrome. A roadmap for survival, this memoir inspires strength and gratitude in seeing how Bruzzone learns how to live as her father's daughter.