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In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer
by Teva Harrison
House of Anansi Press | April 2017 | eISBN:978-1-4870-0110-0 | ePUB | 18.8 mb
https://www.amazon.com/Between-Days-Memoir-Living-Cancer/dp/1487001088
Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings: a lifelong vegetarian, Teva agrees to use experimental drugs that have been tested on animals.
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 and loving with her husband, her family, and her friends, while they all adjust to the new normal.
Ultimately, In-Between Days is redemptive and uplifting, reminding each one of us of how beautiful life is, and what a gift.
About the Author
TEVA HARRISON is a writer and graphic artist. She is the author of the critically acclaimed graphic memoir, In-Between Days, which is based on her graphic series about living with cancer published in The Walrus. In-Between Days was a finalist for the 2016 Governor General Literary Award for Nonfiction and wasnamed one of the most anticipated books of 2016 by the Globe and Mail, which also named the author one of 16 Torontonians to Watch. She has commented on CBC Radio and in the Globe and Mail about her experience. Numerous health organizations have invited her to speak publicly on behalf of the metastatic cancer community. She lives in Toronto.
CONTENTS
Preface
Prologue
PART ONE
+ Diagnosis: Learning that I am going to die
+ Treatment: By the skin of my teeth
+ Side Effects: What can be withstood
PART TWO
+ Marriage: Love changes everything
+ Family: A mixed-bag inheritance
+ Society: Finding my way
PART THREE
+ Hopes: If wishes were horses
+ Fears: They don't just go bump in the night
+ Dreams: All tangled up in you
Resources
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