October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Penguin Random House is helping to raise awareness around this urgent issue that affects the country and our readers. We are highlighting today’s publication of Penguin Classics‘ new edition of Audre Lorde’s THE CANCER JOURNALS and paying tribute to Lorde’s legacy by connecting the impact of her work with the well-being of her community that inspired much of her writing. Four decades after this book was first published, Black women still have the highest breast cancer death rate of all racial and ethnic groups, and are 42 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than white women (Source: American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network).

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