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Monday, July 1, 2019

North Street Book Prize Grand Prize Winner Shares Endorsements for Her Graphic Memoir

Title: Our Last Six Months
Author: Emily Bracale
Genre: Nonfiction: Memoir / Graphic Memoir / Health / Death
Grand Prize Winner: Winning Writers' #NorthStreetBookPrize 
IISBN-13: 978-1-947758-03-2
400 cartoons and illustrations


SYNOPSIS:

This is a nonfiction book about cancer and death, that reads like a graphic novel, with 400 cartoons and illustrations. Author and illustrator Emily Bracale started creating Our Last Six Months while taking care of a family member who was dying of cancer. It is inspired by Roz Chast’s cartoon memoir, "Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” If you’ve ever taken care of someone who was dying, her book will be very affirming. If you’ve not yet assisted a loved one through this transition, her book will help prepare you. In 2019 Our Last Six Months won the grand prize out of 997 entries in the prestigious Winning Writers North Street Book Competition! 

ENDORSEMENTS: 

"Your book had me laughing one minute and crying the next. Your honesty was refreshing and your drawings added a visual component to the everyday drama of it all. I hope others will be able to use your book as a survival guide or at least appreciate that they are not the only ones in this situation. Dying is not quick or easy for anyone involved, it is a LOT OF WORK.” — Nurse Jan

“I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your book. I found it highly compelling, sad, honestly raw and helpful even. Although my experience was different and a few years old, I was glad to see the similarities in our reaction to so much beyond our control, a response that included anger. Thank you! I’m so glad I bought it! All the best to you.” — Susan MacLeod

MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Emily Bracale is also the author of In the Lyme-Light: Portraits of Illness and Healing (2014), a book to help Lyme patients communicate their experiences and needs. Please find it online at www.inthelyme-light.com. She lives in Bar Harbor, Maine, where she teaches art classes for all ages. Her new cartoons and an excerpt from her award-winning book are on medium.com/@emilybracale

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