In October 2022, Shalisa was diagnosed with Stage 4 endometrial adenocarcinoma. The cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and her lungs. Her oncologist, in a moment of blunt honesty, told her she had “sh*t luck.” Shalisa decided early that she wasn’t going to let a prognosis dictate how she felt, or for how long. So, she kept booking flights.

She kept stepping onto stages. She kept laughing. And she started writing. What followed was three years of chemotherapy, radiation, collapsed lungs, immunotherapy, experimental treatments, a near-fatal allergic reaction on the Nile River in Egypt, 29 days in the hospital, 40 infusions, and 18 countries. She attended her daughter’s wedding in Cabo San Lucas five days after her first round of chemo. She rang bells at the end of treatment twice. She sang jingles in a hospital bed with two chest tubes sticking out of her. She never stopped.

Three Years Left is laugh-out-loud funny, gut-punch honest, and shot through with the kind of faith that doesn’t come from easy circumstances. It is the story of a woman who decided that cancer was the least interesting thing about her and proved it, one extraordinary adventure at a time.