Eyes Too Dry (Paperback)

Alice Chipkin

ISBN 10: 1760680036 / ISBN 13: 9781760680039

Published by Allen & Unwin, 2017

About this Item

Paperback. Meet Tava, a twenty-four-year-old medical student in a deep depression. Alice, her friend and housemate, is trying to figure out how to support her. Time unravels, leaving both women bewildered at the emotional landscapes that have opened before them."This is such a beautiful beautiful book. Deeply thoughtful, deeply impressive. A real work of heart."- Clare Bowditch"I have never seen mental illness depicted in this way, and the illustrations convey the physical and emotional toll of depression more powerfully than anything I've ever seen before. This is an important book about a topic that still holds so much stigma, and the more people that read it the better." - Rebecca Shaw A unique and powerful graphic memoir of friendship, mental illness, and art Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eyes Too Dry (Paperback)
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1760680036
• ISBN 13: 9781760680039
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Meet Tava, a 24-year-old medical student in a deep depression. Alice, her friend and housemate, is trying to figure out how to support her. Time unravels, leaving both women bewildered at the emotional landscapes that have opened before them. Eyes Too Dry started out as a series of private conversations between the authors by way of a comic-in-correspondence. Their decision to make this work public was fueled by their struggle to find stories and artwork that spoke to their experiences of encountering depression, suicidal ideation, and emotional weight. In a world that tells us to "keep calm and carry on," they are offering a narrative that is vulnerable, honest, and uncertain. They hope to add new ways to talk about, visualize and relate to these complex emotions.

About the Author

Alice Chipkin and Jessica Tavassoli are two queer women living in Melbourne, Australia. Chipkin’s roots are in education, writing, and photography, and Tavassoli’s are in drawing and medicine.