Mycelium

"Going to openings and parties, Noora is living the post-art school life in Berlin when, in 2005, she's diagnosed with breast cancer. Vaguely restless, until she's been neither happy nor unhappy. The diagnosis forces her to question the assumptions by which she lived her life so far. Uneasily, she realizes that the 'relationships of the soul' she and her friends value over everything else might not be as indelible as family after all.... [This] depicts the transformation of Berlin from the frontier city of the Cold War to an international art hub as an analog and backdrop to the chaotic, corporeal transformation Noora undergoes through cancer and its treatments."--Back cover.