Bøker av Erin Williams

“A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, and a devastating portrait of the ways our society fails to protect the bodies of its most vulnerable members.” —Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWhat’s Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams’s graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams’s own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like: immunodeficiency cancer endometriosis alcoholism severe depression PTSD Western medicine, which intends to cure illness and minimize pain, often causes more loss, abuse, and suffering for those Americans who don’t fit within the narrow definition of who the system was built to serve—cis, white, heterosexual men. The book explores the many ways in which those receiving medical care are often overlooked, unseen, and doubted by the very clinicians who are supposed to heal them. What’s Wrong? is also a beautiful celebration of nontraditional modes of healing, of how we become whole not because of health care but despite it.

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision women must make between being sexualized or being invisible-now in paperback

Sam feared her infertility would forever be an obstacle to finding a lasting relationship, and when her boyfriend of two years unceremoniously breaks up with her, she is ready to give up on love altogether. With help from her effervescent friend, Holly, and her happy-go-lucky boy friend from college, JB, she begins to see that the relationship was more flawed than she ever imagined. After a chance meeting with Spencer, a handsome man of honor who is passionate about his hazardous job with the Navy, everything Sam's ever known about men and relationships changes. But dating a man in the military is not without its difficulties, and Sam has to decide if she's willing to risk it all for a man who will be out of town and in harm's way so often. When tragedy strikes while Spencer is deployed, and her friendship with JB reaches an emotional climax, Sam finds herself alone and doubting her future once again. Is she capable of lasting love, or will her physical limitations and insecurities always stand in her way?