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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, Harrison documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with breast cancer. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings. She struggles to reconcile her long-term goals with an uncertain future, balancing the innate sadness of cancer with everyday acts of hope and wonder. She also examines those quiet moments of helplessness...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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Pursuing the spirit of adventure and an altruistic goal of raising global awareness and funds for breast cancer, Polly Letofsky broke down barriers and walked across four continents, 22 countries, and covered over 14,000 miles in five years to be the first American woman to successfully walk around the world.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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"When Jennifer Hayden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43, she realized that her tits told a story. Across a lifetime, they'd held so many meanings: hope and fear, pride and embarrassment, life and death. And then they were gone. Now, their story has become a way of understanding her story: a journey from the innocence of youth to the chaos of adulthood, through her mother's mastectomy, her father's mistress, her husband's music, and...
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Pub. Date
c2000
Description
"Campbell Armstrong met his first wife, Eileen, in Glasgow when they were both very young. She was Jewish, the only daughter of an Orthodox family who lived on the south side of the city. When they first became lovers, Eileen showed Campbell a small scar on her stomach, the only remnant of a cesarean delivery she had undergone when she was seventeen. The baby, whom she named Barbara, had been given up for adoption. Eileen's parents never spoke of...
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