The Story Of My Tits
by Jennifer Hayden
Buy on Amazon"Truly moving. Hayden has created a heartfelt and often hilarious tribute to her life-and to the resilience of women everywhere." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Named one of Library Journal's BEST BOOKS OF 2015! A landmark work of graphic memoir and a cancer narrative that Gabrielle Bell (Lucky, Cecil & Jordan in New York, Everything is Flammable) calls, "comforting, straightforward and strongly connected to life." 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.…
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"Life surges and flows, unstoppable, in Jennifer Hayden’s graphical autobiography. It may be organized around Hayden’s experience of having breasts and losing them to cancer, but it’s far more than just a record of the existence of two bumps of flesh. It’s also a rebuttal to the forces of illness and early death. Hayden shouts back with everything she has. Placed alongside dozens of other experiences in this long book, cancer isn’t allowed to shove joy, hope and humor offstage."
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