num_pages: 288
description: An Arab-American college student struggles to live with epilepsy in this starkly colored and deeply-cutting graphic novel.Isaac wants nothing more than to be a functional college studentbut managing his epilepsy is an exhausting battle to survive. He attempts to maintain a balancing act between his seizure triggers and his day-to-day schedule but he finds that nothingnot even his medicationseems to work. The doctors wont listen the schoolwork keeps piling up his family is in denial about his condition and his social life falls apart as he feels more and more isolated by his illness. Even with an unexpected new friend by his side so much is up against him that Isaac is starting to think his epilepsy might be unbeatable.Based on the authors own experiences as an epileptic Mis(h)adra is a boldly visual depiction of the daily struggles of living with a misunderstood condition in todays hectic and uninformed world.
language: English
title: Mis(h)adra
publisher: Gallery 13