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Traces of Madness: A Graphic Memoir
A debut graphic memoir that was originally published in Spain and won the Popular Prize award at the Salón del Cómic in Barcelona, this moving and devastating portrait of a little-understood condition will fascinate and educate readers.
Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir
Dorrance’s (It’s All About Mimi) gorgeous, plaintive story speaks to those caring for aging parents and realizing they must eventually prepare for their own exits. A lyrical read-alike for Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast.
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Dwellings
Readers who enjoyed Afterlife with Archie by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa or Octopus Girl by Toru Yamazaki will enjoy untangling the plots of these six cutesy yet highly disturbing stories.
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Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood
Excellent for readers seeking to understand challenges facing devout LGBTQIA+ people and for religious queer individuals themselves.
Collection Development | Graphic Medicine
Comics seem uniquely equipped to educate about health and medicine, as these stories of sickness and medicine demonstrate.
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
Czerwiec’s wrenching, inspiring story addresses how people should be treated by the medical system and challenges them to treat all patients as in Unit 371. Highly recommended.
Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism
These dozen dramatized interviews speak for the uncountable war veterans throughout history who died with their PTSD, guilt, and pain undiagnosed and misunderstood. Highly recommended for readers willing to brave the wars inside veterans and thus better understand the wars outside them.
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Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story
An inventive introduction to what to expect for someone seriously ill with leukemia and for medical professionals needing insight into their patients’ points of view. Also, a sobering readalike for Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s Cancer Vixen, in which the author survives.
What’s Wrong? Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine
The raw accounts of these five tormented women reveal a disturbingly ineffective health system. Vital for health collections in public and university libraries.
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