Gila Pfeffer

Gila Pfeffer is a Jewish American writer and humorist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Today.com, and elsewhere. Gila’s monthly “Feel It on the First” campaign reminds women to prioritize their breast health. She splits her time between New York City and London.


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Nearly Departed
Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences
by Gila Pfeffer
Hardcover | $27.95 US / $36.50 CAN

By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried the BRCA1 gene—which put … Continue reading