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Title: Billy, Me & You: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery
Author: Nicola Streeten
Illustrator: Nicola Streeten
Primary Health Topic: Bereavement
Secondary Health Topic(s): Grief, Death, Cardiac Health
Special Considerations: Death
Publication Date: October 27, 2011
Publisher: Myriad Editions
ISBN: 9780956559944
GM Review: Guest Review by Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Anu Mary Peter
Annotation: Billy, Me & You is a unique experience. It’s a comic exploring the grief, trauma, and recovery following the death of Streeten’s two year old son, written more than a decade after his death, built on reconstructed memories from diary and journal entries from that time. It’s also a surprisingly funny comic, which isn’t something you expect in a story about grief, but Streeten infuses the absurdity of living through such trauma (and our responses to) with a wry humor you can’t help but chuckle at. Not limited to discussing individual grief, Billy, Me & You provides valuable insight into the culture around grief and the limits of public acceptance.
Annotated By: Matthew Noe