Winner of the 2022 AWP Kurt Brown Prize in Creative Nonfiction
Terms & Conditions
When a 46-year-old hypervigilant anthropologist finds out she has a genetic mutation that means she is at risk of developing the same cancer that killed her father at 48, she must put her grief and anxiety over his death and her emotionally precarious childhood to rest or risk losing her sanity, her husband, and her carefully ordered life.
What Readers Say
“I've never experienced a book quite like this, a memoir of sorts told through a hybrid of moments, memories, and artifacts.”
— Jeff Bogle, Author of Street Cats & Where to Find Them and Publisher at Stanchion
“Sharply captures the unease and uncertainty of our health and heredity. With startling honesty, Goldmacher offers a glossary both personal and universal—an affecting, emotional story.”
— Dinty W. Moore, Author of Between Panic & Desire
My Other Books
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Designing An Anthropology Career
Tools to identify your professional goals and follow through on them.
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Record: A Journal
For writers, travelers, and those who think they aren’t good at journaling.
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Anxiety Book In Progress
Anxiety is a signal to recognize, not a flaw to eliminate.
