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• Annotation:
• 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. --Publisher
• Creator:
• Illustrator - Teva Harrison
• Publication Information:
• House of Anansi Press Inc., Toronto, 2016
• Color or Black & White:
• 
• Genre:
• Autobiography/Memoir
• Bibliography Available:
• No
• Original Language:
• English
• Historical Topic/Event:
• Breast--Cancer
• Breast--Cancer--Patients
• Breast--Cancer--Genetic aspects
• Geographic Setting:
• Oregon
• Canada
• Date Range:
• 2013 - 2015
• Awards:
• 2016 Governor General''s Literary Award Finalist, 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Winner 2017 Joe Shuster Award Nominee, Globe and Mail, National Post, Kobo, and Quill & Quire Book of the Year
• Tags:
• breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer, genetics, cancer treatments, oncology team, cancer patient
• Notes:
• Resource page of helpful organizations included
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