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Goodbye: A Story of Suicide

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by Kevin Wolf Zuiker Press has published several books in the Teen Topics (“issue-based”) series; and “All of our authors … tell their personal stories [as] … ambassadors of their cause. Their goal … is that young people will learn from their pain and heroics and find HOPE, CHANGE, and HAPPINESS in their own lives. [emphasis in original, page 4]” Other graphic medicine works include Identity: A Story of Transitioning about being transgender and Brother: A Story of Autism—both awaiting review at www.graphicmedicine.org. The covers of the series are similar with the right-side of the protagonists’ face on the cover… Read More

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

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by Gene Bild Reading Julia Wertz’s new book, Impossible People, is akin to a series of comfortable, chatty afternoon visits with an old friend.  It is 300 + pages, and I spent a series of enjoyable afternoons reading it. Beginning with a debacle of a vacation on her 30th birthday, where Julia starts to take responsibility for the mess alcohol has made of her life, the book then flashes back 4 years and starts chronicling her slow journey to sobriety. Unlike other “My Sobriety Struggle” bios I’ve read, Wertz doesn’t go into detail about scary childhood traumas and dysfunctional family… Read More

Hungry Ghost

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by Soph Myers-Kelley   If you have experience with an eating disorder, this book may be triggering for you. It could also be deeply and emotionally relatable. For those who are unfamiliar with eating disorders and want to learn what one person’s experience was like, this IS the book for you. Valerie Chu can’t remember a time when her mother did not watch what she ate. She remembers, since she was a young child, wanting to be gwai (a Chinese term roughly translating to good or obedient) for her parents. This includes being thin. The fictional—though realistic—Hungry Ghost by Victoria… Read More