Cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s graphic memoir about her battle with breast cancer is as bold, vibrant, and brave as she is–pumped full of color, the story leaps off the page and into your heart. Poignant and funny, this inspiring story is made all the more powerful by Marchetto’s cartoons. Lucky for us, Marchetto agreed to create a cartoon just for Amazon.com customers. Check out her strip below. –Daphne Durham

Meet Marisa, a self-described “shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life.” Her graphic memoir, Cancer Vixen describes what happens when she finds a lump in her breast. Want to know what happens to an author when they discover their sales rank at Amazon.com? Read Marisa’s exclusive strip below to find out.

Author: Marisa Acocella Marchetto

Hardcover: 
224 pages

Company: Knopf 

(2006-09-26)

(2006-09-26)

ISBN: 0307263576

List Price: $22.00
Amazon Price: $9.00

Used Price: $6.87

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Company: Klean Kanteen 

(2007-12-15)

List Price: $17.45
Amazon Price: $15.90

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Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy’s critically acclaimed memior, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn’t Lucy’s life or Ann’s life, but the parts of their lives they shared. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined … and what happens when one is left behind.

This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.

Author: Ann Patchett

Paperback: 
272 pages

Company: Harper Perennial 

(2005-04-01)

(2005-04-05)

ISBN: 0060572159

List Price: $14.95
Amazon Price: $4.91

Used Price: $3.24

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