A mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she might have already died. Bedridden with a terminal diagnosis, memories, nurses, immoral doctors, foreign television broadcasts, and phone calls from children intrude upon her consciousness. An aloe plant called Madame Blavatsky is her primary companion.

About the Author
Coco Picard is a writer, cartoonist, and curator. She is the author of two graphic novels, Meowsers (forthcoming) and The Chronicles of Fortune (2017), which was nominated for a DiNKy Award. Art criticism and comics have otherwise appeared under the name Caroline Picard in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Paris Review, and Seven Stories Press, among others. She started the Green Lantern Press in 2005, received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute and was a Bookends Fellow at Stony Brook University.

Awards
Winner of Women's Prose Prize 2020 (United States).



Book Information
ISBN 9781636280516
Author Coco Picard
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Red Hen Press
Publisher Red Hen Press