John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, makes reference to Esther Earl when showing the isolation of serious illness, "we have a habit of imagining the dying as fundamentally other from the well. ... Hazel has one and used it as a child before she was "diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen.... Like Anna, the main character of An Imperial Affliction, Hazel is terminally ill, and as Hazel says, "it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.... " Also, in An Imperial Affliction, the novel ends mid-sentence, making it unclear whe...

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