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When Elizabeth Edwards shaved her head because of hair loss from breast cancer treatment, her husband–former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards–offered to do the same. So did their son, Jack, Edwards writes in “Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength From Friends and Strangers,” scheduled for publication in September by Broadway Books.

“I convinced them it wouldn’t help me to see more bald people in my family,” she wrote. The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., which obtained an advance copy, described the book in Saturday’s editions. “The cancer,” Edwards wrote, “seems to be gone.”