Full name: Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics

Author: Miriam Engelberg Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Graphic Novels, Memoirs, Non Fiction, Humor Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060789732 0060789735

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. 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. Similar books: Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto The Story of My Tits by Jennifer Hayden The Infinite Wait and Other Stories by Julia Wertz Whiskey & New York by Julia Wertz Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies An Age of License by Lucy Knisley Something New by Lucy Knisley Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley Quiet Girl in a Noisy World by Debbie Tung Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole J. Georges The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell Stitches by David Small Funny Misshapen Body by Jeffrey Brown Displacement by Lucy Knisley Just Peachy by Holly Chisholm Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt Ghetto Klown by John Leguizamo Going Into Town by Roz Chast