I've read this one online and I was very touched and moved by the story and how it resembled my own. Yes it was like that.
Every cancer story is different, this one told in vignettes with emotional truth and empathy, and humor, and love.
I borrowed this one from my workplace library at UHD. See my brief note about it over at my blog: [http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/12/short-notes-on-graphic-novels-8.html]
From the first pages I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. Sure, Fies’ work is an Eisner Award winner, a book form graphic novel born out of an anonymous, online comic strip the author wrote as a kind of self-therapy while dealing with his own mother’s cancer. That alone is quite a bit to recommend...
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