Eight Billion Steps: My Impossible Quest For Cancer Comedy

NEW 2023 EDITION. Ten years later after... new material.

"Eight Billion Steps: My Impossible Quest For Cancer Comedy" is about (as may seem obvious) finding humor in cancer. After Jeff was diagnosed with an extremely large and rare salivary gland tumor on the back of his tongue, throat and jaw, he and his wife began their fun-filled search for treatment. Eight Billion Steps is Jeff’s life-affirming odyssey, told with honesty and humor, interspersed with moments of terror.

“This book was going to be Two Hundred Steps, My Fight Against Cancer, but the title seemed too generic for what was percolating in my sometimes painfully clear mind. So I changed it from the typical to the absurd, and I have been struggling with my quest ever since.”

Jeffrey Penn May has won several short fiction awards, received a Pushcart Prize nomination for his creative nonfiction and was a Landmark Prize finalist for his literary novella, Margery.