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Billy, Me & You

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A moving, surprisingly funny, and inspiring graphic memoir by a woman who lost her two-year-old son after heart surgery, Billy, Me & You is a bracing and memorable account of recovery after ber...
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  • 26 October 2007
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A moving, surprisingly funny, and inspiring graphic memoir by a woman who lost her two-year-old son after heart surgery, Billy, Me & You is a bracing and memorable account of recovery after bereavement. Nicola Streeten’s little boy, Billy, was two years old when he died following heart surgery for problems diagnosed only a few days earlier. Ten years later, Streeten revisited her diaries and notebooks made at the time: this wonderfully vibrant narrative recounts how she and her partner recovered. Gut-wrenchingly sad at times, her graphic memoir is an unforgettable portrayal of trauma and our reaction to it – and, especially, the humour or absurdity so often involved in our responses. As Streeten’s story unfolds and we follow her and her partner’s heroic efforts to cope with well-meaning friends and day-to-day realities, we begin to understand what she means by her aim to create a ‘dead baby story that is funny’. Streeten is the first British woman to have published a graphic memoir.
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Price: $19.95
Pages: 208
Publisher: New Internationalist
Imprint: Myriad Editions
Publication Date: 26 October 2007
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780956559944
Format: Paperback
BISACs: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Heart, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Contemporary Women
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