Welcome to the bookcase. We're so glad you're here. I am Kate Gibson.

And I'm Charlie Gibson. Today we have Delia Fron on the show, a writer I have been a fan of for a long, long time.

Her new book, though, is quite a departure from her earlier work. It's a very personal story about her finding love for the second time after

her first husband's death, but also about her harrowing battle with leukemia. And it's interesting

because when I was reading it, I thought, wow, this is so deeply personal. This is so, everything she writes about

is so visceral, so deep inside that I was thinking, why on earth would you want to share that

with the world, even though it's beautifully written? And then I started thinking about the fact

that, you know, writers can't not write. It's something we've talked about in the show

before. It's in their DNA. And she talks about it being the greatest story she's ever been given

to tell. It's how she makes sense of the world. And so I guess this book in some ways is a letting go of that amazing story, releasing it out there so that other people can learn from it and heal with it.

You know, as viewers of Good Morning America know, Robin Roberts went through just such a tough time dealing with the same disease that Delia dealt with.

And when I talked to Robin, I said, can you read this book?

And she said, no, I just can't.

I can't.

But as somebody personally, me, who went through some forms of cancer, I found it cathartic.

And I think it was cathartic for Delia to write it.

You made an interesting point right at the beginning, Kate, that it's a love story.

And she finds a second round of love in her life that sustains her through hell.

She says, I went through hell.

I wanted to die.

My bone marrow, she needed a bone marrow transplant,

as Robin did.

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