Barbara Ehrenreich writes this book as a way to inform readers about the hazardous effects of positive thinking and the way it has warped our perception on how we deal with obstacles in life.The book shows the effects on the business, religious,and especially personal and morbid level when she speaks about her confrontation with breast cancer. She speaks about how she was exposed to the “pink ribbon culture “ and was overwhelmed with crazy optimistic, inspirational phrases,where the word victim is considered taboo. But a merry outlook, she argues,will not cure cancer.This is when she first realized the negative effects of positive thinking. The author discusses this in detail on how it seems that some cancer support groups have no
