Sarah Leavitt is the author of the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My mother, and Me, which was a finalist for the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2010 and is currently in development as a feature-length animation. Leavitt teaches comics classes at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Visit her at sarahleavitt.com.
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Comics
Sarah Leavitt
Waiting for Sleep
On sick watch, Sarah Leavitt observes her mother shoot out of bed, sing folk songs and talk in short bursts.
Comics
Sarah Leavitt
You Don’t Say
When my mom got Alzheimer’s people started saying the darndest things.
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Eve Corbel
Odds Are
Eve Corbel lays out how likely you are to die by plane crash, shark attack, lightning, flu and other likely and unlikely causes.