This review was written together with my 8 year old daughter, who has read the book over and over because she liked it so much. She first heard about the book at an author talk, and later asked to buy it when coming across it at a school book sale. She is a prolific reader, and considers this her favorite book. Amina’s Voice is a book for 8-12 year olds about a Muslim-American girl who just started 6th grade. Her best friend, a Korean immigrant, […]
A Comic’s Guide to Mastectomies
This is the book that I wish I had written. In fact, many of my friends and family did tell me that I should write it, but I was too slow, and Caitlin Brodnick did an amazing job of it instead. Ms. Brodnick learned at age 21 that she was BRCA positive. At age 28 she opted for prophylactic bilateral mastectomies, as a result of her family history. Ms. Brodnick spent some years engaging in self-destructive behavior in a effort to ignore her diagnosis. She did […]
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