Dancing at the Pity Party, (Hardcover)

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Thus memoir will stay with this reader forever in my heart. I cannot say enough wonderful words to express the impact this book has made on me. Reader, you have the rare privilege to view a tender memoir of a girl who is the oldest of three sisters in a close knit Jewish family. Tyler the voice o...

from ecataldi

What a poignant heartfelt book. Unlike anything else out there; the graphic novel is a memoir of loss. One girl trying to come to terms with the loss of her mom, the anger, the platitudes, the awkwardness, the sadness is all brilliantly captured through comic art. Funny, moving, and exceptionally...

from oldandnewbooksmell

Dancing at the Pity Party is a graphic memoir from Tyler Feder about her life as a motherless daughter. From before her mother's oncology appointment, through the stages of cancer, her death and funeral, sitting shiva, and afterwards, Feder shares about losing her mother to cancer. She tells abou...

from villemezbrown

Tyler Feder was a freshman at college when her mom died of cancer at 47. It was pretty easy for me to identify with this tale of loss and grief as my father died at 52 just before my sophomore year of college and my mother died a decade later of cancer at age 54. I am now on the verge of living a...

from Hccpsk

I typically struggle a bit with graphic novels, but Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder worked for me. Her homey drawing style, emotional story, and sense of humor hit all the right notes in this memoir about her mother's death. Throughout the book, she gives great advice and delivers plenty...