Inch by Inch is a novel that presents a scenario all too real for the quarter million women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year -- and their families. But above all, Inch by Inch is one of the most honest love stories in contemporary fiction. Jake and Leslie have been married for twenty-five years, have two children in college, and a life they had expected. Then abruptly, after Jake returns from a business trip, Leslie tells him that she has breast cancer. Suddenly their world is turned upside down. First, there is the surgery, then the devastation of...