MARIETTA, GA – November 11, 2026 – Author’s Tranquility Press presents I CAN-CER VIVE: Live Free, Choose Joy by Monya Williams, a candid memoir that brings together two difficult parts of one life: breast cancer and a childhood marked by abuse, fear and lasting emotional wounds.
Williams writes plainly about what happened and what it took to keep moving forward.
Her cancer journey included a bilateral mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, reconstruction and additional surgeries. Alongside that experience, the memoir revisits childhood trauma, hearing loss, complicated family relationships and the difficult process of learning what forgiveness and healing can actually look like.
Some of the book’s most memorable moments are also its most ordinary.
After learning that a plain postsurgical bra had cost more than $200, Williams covered it with rhinestones. What could have remained another uncomfortable reminder of treatment became something she could laugh about. Hospital waiting rooms become places where she notices strangers caring for one another. A trip to Paris gives her a rare stretch of time when life feels larger than appointments, procedures and fear.
Those moments keep I CAN-CER VIVE grounded. Williams does not present joy as the absence of pain, nor does she turn survival into a simple slogan. Fear, grief, humor, family and faith all occupy the same pages.
Her husband, children and grandchildren are part of a story in which cancer reaches well beyond the person receiving treatment. Faith remains equally central as Williams reflects on motherhood, identity, forgiveness and the question of how to rebuild after life changes without permission.
The phrase Choose Joy becomes less a declaration than a repeated decision. It is something Williams returns to while uncertainty, physical pain and difficult memories are still present.
Readers interested in memoirs about cancer, trauma, family and starting again can find I CAN-CER VIVE: Live Free, Choose Joy on Amazon.
For readers who know what it means to rebuild after illness, loss or a painful past, this memoir offers a story worth spending time with.
About Monya Williams
Monya Williams is a mother, grandmother and breast cancer survivor whose writing draws on experiences with illness, family, faith, forgiveness and healing.
About Author’s Tranquility Press
Author’s Tranquility Press helps authors bring books to market through publishing, publicity, marketing, and distribution services.
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