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Sarah Leavitt

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born

The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.sarahleavitt.com

genre

Comics & Graphic Novels, Biographies & Memoirs

member since

July 2010

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Sarah Leavitt is a writer, cartoonist and editor from Vancouver, BC, Canada. In September 2010 she published her first book, a graphic memoir — Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (Canada: Freehand Books, September 2010; UK: Jonathan Cape, Nov 2011; US: Skyhorse, March 2012).

Tangles was a finalist for the 2010 Writers’ Trust of Canada Non-fiction Prize (first graphic narrative to be a finalist in this category); the 2011 BC Book Prizes, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize; the Book Illustration category of the 2011 Alberta Book Publishing Awards; and the 2011 Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. Tangles was included in the Globe and Mail’s top 100 books of 2010 and Maisonneuve Magazine’s top 10 for 2010, and won the CBC Bookie award...more

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Average rating: 4.20 · 204 ratings · 61 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors

	Tangles : a story about Alzheimer's, my mother, and me 4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Torngat Sketches: A Northwords Story 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Northwords by Noah Richler, Joseph Boyden, Sarah Leavitt (Goodreads Author) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Great drawings. Loved the writing. both storylines. But I ended up wanting much more of each story and not seeing the point of combining them.
Dec 25, 2012 01:44pm · see review
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