InBetween Days, Teva Harrison
InBetween Days, Teva Harrison
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In-Between Days
A Memoir About Living with Cancer

Author: Teva Harrison

Narrator: Teva Harrison

Unabridged: 3 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/06/2017


Synopsis

2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner2017 Joe Shuster Award NomineeTeva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings: a lifelong vegetarian, Teva agrees to use experimental drugs that have been tested on animals. She struggles to reconcile her long-term goals with an uncertain future, balancing the innate sadness of cancer with everyday acts of hope and wonder. She also examines those quiet moments of helplessness and loving with her husband, her family, and her friends, while they all adjust to the new normal.Ultimately, In-Between Days is redemptive and uplifting, reminding each one of us of how beautiful life is, and what a gift.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha on April 03, 2018

I spent most of this book either crying, or screen-shotting the pages (read on my iPad), so I wouldn't forget all of the experiences Teva described that are the exact same as my own. Also living with Stage IV, the feeling of hope-turned-sadness-turned-anger is so real for me. If you ever want a glim......more

Goodreads review by Dave on April 19, 2017

A kind of hybrid prose and comics/cartoons memoir about the author's being diagnosed with (incurable) metastatic breast cancer at the age of only 37. One page has images, the next has an anecdote or reflection, and I guess I might have preferred more of one than the other. I wasn't a fan of the illu......more

Goodreads review by Rod on March 08, 2022

Engrossing and moving autobiographical cartoons, vignettes and short essays about living with a terminal illness. With such short snippets, the book does get a little too random at times, and in general I'm not a fan of hybrid graphic novels. Here, every one-page cartoon is followed by one to two pag......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on April 22, 2016

I am living with Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer, currently in remission. My preferable term for "in remission" is "cured". Teva describes my own experience so perfectly that I want to buy her book for everyone I know and when I give it to them I can say, "This is exactly what I'm going through". Although I......more

Goodreads review by Sharyl on September 01, 2016

Teva Harrison's wonderful, touching work of art about her life, before and after her diagnosis of Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, at the age of thirty-seven. Teva is an inspiration to everyone, with her profound expressions of living life to its maximum. I would recommend this to absolutely anyone......more