"At the beginning of 2013, hard on the heels of her mothers death and a cancer diagnosis, Ellis Avery was stuck in a mobility scooter, crippled by an autoimmune condition called Reiters Syndrome. The Family Tooth is a cancer story sandwiched inside a grief-and-food memoir, but more than that, its a story of hope and, ultimately, triumph: it tells the story of the medical and psychological sleuthing that enabled her to walk again by the end of the year," --