[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

no one will care more about your life than you do, and no one is better qualified to chart its course than you are. and so begins a poignant account of the author's family - and what happens when his mom is diagnosed with brain and lung cancer. told as a graphic novel, the story is simple enough for a everyman tale, and the simplicity is it strength. it feels real enough to me, with a longtime smoker for a mom, multiple siblings to squabble over choice of care, a divorced dad who offers the opposite of comfort.

the strongest takeaway from the book: when people face an emergency, they just become more of what they already are - like they get superpowers.

i'm going to remember that.