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More copies of this ISBN:Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comicsby Miriam Engelberg
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person puts Engelberg's life in focus the best way she knows how — with cartoons. Her graphic approach to a very serious subject follows in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's award-winning Maus, but in her own offbeat, on-target, and darkly, devastatingly humorous style. From sex and wigs to nausea and causes — Was it overzealous cheese consumption or not enough multivitamins? — Engelberg leaves no aspect of cancer unexamined. In this remarkable "memoir in comics," she takes a clear-eyed, deliciously sardonic look at caring friends and relatives, doctors, treatments, and support groups while never losing her guarded optimism and, most important, her sense of humor. Review:"Stricken with breast cancer at a disturbingly young age (43), Engelberg turned to cartooning to cope; the resulting work is both powerful and very funny. She starts at the very beginning, while awaiting her diagnosis. The story follows the cancer trail all the way through surgery, chemo, support groups, wigs, the distraction of cartooning, moving house while completely nauseated and the horror of a second diagnosis. In contrast to the heavy subject matter, Engelberg's artwork is naïve to the extreme, though it has some charm. The true strength of the book is its fusion of the deadly serious with the absurd, in the finest tradition of black humor. Engelberg's narrative is riveting. She traces the trajectory of both her diagnosis and her growing obsession with the crossword puzzle in the newspaper's TV guide — 'must...avoid...inner...thought...processes,' she announces. The reader discovers the author's difficulties in appreciating life's special moments, and witnesses the many compliments she receives on her post-chemo wig. We follow the way the medical profession communicates, the things people say when they don't know what to say and the utter incomprehensibility of not knowing if you're documenting your own slow death. It's extremely honest and extraordinarily powerful." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"[W]itty and thought-provoking....Highly recommended..." Library Journal Review:"Engelberg's daft sense of humor, never mean, gross, or flippant, serves readers, perhaps especially fellow cancer patients, as well as, maybe better than, it does her." Booklist Review:"If you think everything has been said about getting cancer, Engelberg will prove you wrong. This book is so funny, so sad, so daring, so honest and so utterly human that I couldn't put it down." Harriet Lerner, PH.D., Author of the Dancer of Anger Synopsis:A successful cartoonist diagnosed with breast cancer chronicles the experience through every emotional and physical stage of the disease in a unique cartoon memoir.
Synopsis:a cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humorous graphic memoir. About the AuthorMiriam Engelberg was forty-three when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Like anyone faced with a life-altering personal trauma, she sought out a coping mechanism. While fellow patients championed the benefits of support groups and hypnotherapy, Engelberg found her greatest comfort in drawing, her lifelong passion. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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