Unfiltered: A Cancer Year Diary

Amaris Feland Ketcham starts a daily diary comic unaware of the cancer diagnosis awaiting her partner. This graphic memoir shares the ups and downs of their cancer year together with humor and resilience, plus plenty of food, hikes, and cats.

Publisher Marketing: "This wonderful book flips your expectations about what a graphic memoir can be and do." - Kelcey Ervick , author of The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law that Changed Women's Lives "Funny, poetic, and wholly charming-this book has it all." - Teresa Wong , author of Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression "This grounded journal of a year of uncertainty, life, death, and hope is a must-read." - MK Czerwiec , RN, MA, "Comic Nurse" at graphicmedicine.org "Unfiltered: A Cancer Year Diary will be given a special place on my bedside table ... I shall reach for this book... and with a deep sigh of relief remember the possibility of new life ahead." - Dr. Patricia Ann Repar , Professor and Director of Arts-in-Medicine Program, University of New Mexico Publisher Marketing : Amaris Feland Ketcham starts her daily diary comic without knowing anything about the cancer diagnosis awaiting her partner. Yet even in the thick of his tests and surgeries, she chronicles her cats and her meals, they take hikes, and the world-at-large somehow continues on. This graphic memoir shares the ups and downs of their cancer year together with honesty, humor, and always a sense of resilience. Contributor Bio: Ketcham, Amaris Feland Amaris Feland Ketcham occupies her time with open space, white space, CMYK, flash nonfiction, long trails, f-stops, line breaks, and several Adobe programs running simultaneously. She is the author of two poetry books, Glitches in the FBI and A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains, and the Best Tent Camping: New Mexico guidebook. Her award-winning writing has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Los Angeles Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, the Utne Reader, and dozens of other venues. She teaches in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico where she is the faculty advisor for the nationally acclaimed arts and literature magazine Scribendi. She has painted murals throughout Albuquerque, acted in a radio drama about the Badlands National Park, and taken students on multi-week camping trips along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Amaris also stages creative encounters with patients as a poet and artist with the Arts-in-Medicine program at UNM Hospital.

Format: Paperback | Pages: 150 | Publication Date: 2023-04-25