Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person: A Memoir In Comics by Miriam Engelberg

Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person: A Memoir In Comics by Miriam Engelberg

a cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humorous graphic memoir.

Miriam Engelberg was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43. She sought a coping technique, as anyone would when confronted with a life-altering personal event. As other patients lauded the benefits of support groups and hypnosis, Engelberg found solace in sketching, a lifelong passion.Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person uses cartoons to bring Engelberg's life into sharp focus. Her graphic treatment of a serious issue is reminiscent of Art Spiegelman's award-winning Maus, but in her own eccentric, on-target, and darkly, devastatingly amusing style. From wigs and sex to sickness and reasons, was it an overabundance of cheese or a lack of multivitamins? She takes a clear-eyed, deliciously sardonic look at loving friends and relatives, doctors, treatments, and support groups in this amazing memoir in comics, without losing her guarded optimism or, most importantly, her sense of humor.