Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"[W]itty and thought-provoking....Highly recommended..." Library Journal
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"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
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"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 Author
Miriam 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.