Fri, May 19, 2006 The California Report Magazine 2006-05-19 Book Review: "Mom's Cancer" by Brian Fies Listen (RealMedia stream) Download (MP3) (Windows: right-click and choose "Save Target As." Mac: hold Ctrl, click link, and choose "Save As.") To the uninitiated, it may be surprising to learn that cancer memoirs are something of a sub-genre in comics. There's Harvey Pekar's "Our Cancer Year," Miriam Engleberg's "Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person" and, later this year, New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Marchetto's "Cancer Vixen." New to that list is "Mom's Cancer" by Northern California-based Brian Fies. Guests: • Oscar Villalon , book critic « back to week of May 19, 2006 Email this page to a friend *Your name:  *Your email address:  *Friend's email address:  Additional Message:  (optional)  * Indicates required field. Names and email addresses are not collected by KQED.org. For more information, please see our privacy policy.

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