Outskirts Press announces the latest highly anticipated autobiography and personal memoir from Riverview, FL, author Shirley Alarie.

Denver, CO, and Riverview, FL - Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Losing the Girls: My Journey Through Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy And Beyond by Shirley Alarie. The author's most recent book to date is a 5.5 x 8.5 paperback in the autobiography and personal memoirs category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Shirley Alarie shares her story to boost awareness of this specialized procedure, which is only offered at select hospitals. She believes that women facing mastectomies deserve to know all of their options.

Shirley found that the biggest challenge of her life began with a convoluted breast cancer diagnosis; and then there was the overwhelming array of surgery options. Mastectomy or lumpectomy? Single mastectomy or double? Reconstruction or no reconstruction? She worried about making the right choice and how her decision would affect her both in the short and long term. How would it affect her marriage? Was it crazy to choose a hospital three hours from home?

After the surgery, Shirley’s determination to beat the cancer triggered a lifestyle transformation that resulted in a stronger, more empowered woman. Her deep faith in God and her peace with the afterlife helped shape her response to this life-changing ordeal with cancer—and the love and support of an amazing posse of family and friends, along with a liberal dose of humor and hope, pulled her through the darkness and back into the warm, sunny light.

Losing the Girls is a powerful and uplifting book for every woman—and the people who love them—to read.

218 pages in length, Losing the Girls: My Journey Through Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy And Beyond is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the autobiography and personal memoirs category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Losing the Girls meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $11.95.

Additionally, Losing the Girls can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.

ISBN: 9781432799526 Format: 5.5 x 8.5 paperback cream SRP: $11.95

For more information or to contact the author, visit http://shirleyalarie.com/

About the author:

Shirley Alarie wrote her memoir in order to spread awareness of NSM, and she published a website that identifies some of the hospitals that perform this surgery: Author site, links to purchase book, and NSM links are at http://shirleyalarie.com/ Or join her on Facebook to celebrate God’s presence in our world at Finding God Among Us.

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