I read A SINGULAR WOMAN because in DECONSTRUCTING OBAMA: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President, by Jack Cashill, I read that President Obama lived for months in Seattle as a newborn. The Janny Scott book includes thorough research - letters, travel and interviews and records for the biography of Stanley Ann Obama Soetoro. Jack Cashill posits other possibilities than present explanations for gaps in the record, and these ideas contribute to my reading of A SINGULAR WOMAN. Janny Scott uses only meticulous reference work when she makes the reader aware of the death of Ann to uterine and ovarian cancer, she does not venture any theories about causes of the illness.
Cashill ventures ideas about alleged nude photos of Ann and about gaps in the record of Obama's birth. Perhaps it is sexism that prevents Cashill from venturing theories about the causes of the illness. Because the illness and death of his mother became part of the discussion about health reform for Barack Obama, a detailed study about this topic should have been part of the book, DECONSTRUCTING OBAMA.
There was swelling and a discussion about the illness might have brought up the idea of whether this was about overweight or illness. Or whether this was a tangible sign of an illness caused by use of birth control pills? (Such a discussion topic follows from the Cashill style.)
