So, basically, this good kid-early 20's secretly goes to the doctor and finds out that the leukemia he had as a teenager has returned. In full force. The book opens with the doctor giving him the news that he's going to die. The book is about the last year of his life.
The opening sentence (which I'm not 100% sold on) is: "The one undeniable fact that everyone is denying is that I'm going to die."
The story behind the title is that, when he was a teenager and was first diagnosed with leukemia, he was known in his high school as "the kid with cancer". It went into remission by middle of senior year, he goes to prom, graduates, then goes to college.
In college, he meets the love of his life, they love in together, and then he starts getting sick. He hides it the best that he can, but sneaks away and gets the fateful doctor's appointment.
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