Heroines: Transformation in the Face of Breast Cancer, a book of photography and poetry chronicling the spiritual odyssey and transformation of women, from 33 to 73, who have faced breast cancer, and who have had the courage to define and create their own sense of reality. The photographs are breathtakingly beautiful, the poetry moving. Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul, introduces acclaimed photographer and photojournalist Jila Nikpay's artistic project as a book with an essay written for women recently diagnosed with cancer.

From the author Nikpay in the book Heroines: Transformation in the Face of Breast Cancer: "The soul, obscured by ego and encased in the body, expresses itself in the most unlikely ways and in the most unexpected places. In my search for this elusive human quality, I have crossed the land of health into the land of illness to meet with those who have experienced breast cancer. My subjects have realized beyond this hinterland of suffering, lies a body of water in which the spirit caresses their soul and heals their wounds. Caught between the profane and divine realities, my subjects have faced their own mortality, mourned the loss of their breast and moved into the land of grace."

You can order this book from the Heroines: Transformation in the Face of Breast Cancer website. Pages of the book are featured on the website as well. As a breast cancer survivor, I highly recommend this inspirational and spiritually soothing work of art in book form, as a gift to yourself as a breast cancer survivor or as a gift for a woman in your life who is facing life with breast cancer.