Summary Of An Imperial Affliction By Hazel Grace Lancaster

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Hazel Grace Lancaster is the protagonist of the book, the story is told by from her point of view. She is a sixteen years old teenage girl who deals with thyroid cancer that spread to her lungs at the age of thirteen. After she got diagnosed with cancer, her parents withdrew her from public school. Despite her illness she was able to get her GED and attends classes at a local community college. At the beginning of the book Hazel seems to be very lonely and isolated from the outside world. She spends most of her time watching reality tv shows at home, reading her favourite book An Imperial Affliction or attending the Cancer Support Group, where her mom forced to go because she thinks that her daughter is depressed and needs to communicate with