SuitabookLiving with visible illness
Ross undergoes treatment for a rare eye cancer while coping with a permanently closed eye, changed appearance and concern about being defined by illness.
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Rob Harrell - Author
This is an illness-and-school story that gives Ross's anger a central role rather than presenting cancer only through hope or life lessons. Friendship, embarrassment, creativity and humour shape his efforts to retain an ordinary identity.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an illness-and-school story that gives Ross's anger a central role rather than presenting cancer only through hope or life lessons. Friendship, embarrassment, creativity and humour shape his efforts to retain an ordinary identity.
Ross undergoes treatment for a rare eye cancer while coping with a permanently closed eye, changed appearance and concern about being defined by illness.
Ross is angry about anonymous memes and about Isaac withdrawing when Ross needs friendship.
Ross channels his feelings into learning guitar and hopes to perform at the school's talent show; comic material and humour accompany the story.
Give particular thought to how the reader may respond to cancer treatment, impaired vision, hair loss, goopy ointment, hurtful memes, anger and a friendship breakdown.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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