The groundbreaking graphic memoir that inspires breast cancer patients to fight back--and do so with style.
What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds .
a lump in her breast? That's the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant graphic memoir in motion.
In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer--from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.
-One of Time's top ten graphic novels of the year -Slate.
com's medical book of the year -One of the Wall Street Journal's five best books on living with illness -Finalist, Books for a Better Life -Finalist, National Cartoonists Society Graphic Novel of the Year Powerful .
A vibrant, neon chronicle with plenty of atti-tude .
A triumph of imagination and spirit.
--Los Angeles Times Ebullient .
Visually invigorating and unflinching.
--The New York Times Book Review Irresistibly authentic .
These words and pictures convey humility and humanity with witty grace and heartfelt power.
--The Miami Herald Funny, eye-opening, moving.
--Time.
Pantheon Books Cancer vixen: a true story, paperback/marisa acocella marchetto
