I heard the trend of Cancer YA Books described as SickLit. (Ok, and maybe I laughed a tiny bit because there are a LOT of those books out there.)

TELL ME SOMETHING REAL could technically fall into this category, but it is NOT the book that you think it's going to be. (No spoilers here, I promise!) What I CAN tell you is that the full range of emotional experience that one has when a parent is sick and/or dying is on display, including the ones that make us uncomfortable, like anger and exhaustion.

I'll never look at apricots the same way again.