Daphne Gottlieb and Diane DiMassa
Heard the one about the dying father? In this savagely brilliant graphic novel by slam poet Daphne Gottlieb (Final Girl) and Hothead Paisan creator Diane DiMassa, a 19-year-old woman named Sasha loses her father to cancer and takes a job in the hospital where he had worked as a doctor. Moving from room to room with her clipboard of forms, Sasha encounters the insane, the suicidal, and the brave—then returns to her office to look up all her friends' and enemies' medical records.
Taking its title from Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Gottlieb and DiMassa's first collaboration is both moving and darkly funny. Where comedy meets chemo, where mirth meets mortality, Jokes and the Unconscious explores the murky terrain of grief—a shadowland of memory, sexual escape, and morbid snickering.
"A perfect collaboration. You will love this heartfelt, beautifully illustrated novel. Funny…true…this book will change how you think about loss." —Stephen Elliott, author of Happy Baby
"As vivid and surreal as grief itself." —Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For
Recent press has praised DAPHNE GOTTLIEB's work as "fierce," "unapologetic," "scorching," and "deliriously gutsy." The author of Final Girl, named one of the best books of the year by the Village Voice, she lives in San Francisco.
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