"Judith is barely out of her teens when a tumor begins pressing on her brain, ushering in a new world of seizures, memory gaps, and loss of self. Suddenly, the sentence of her normal life has been interrupted by the opening of a parenthesis that may never close. Based on the real experiences of cartoonist ?lodie Durand, Parenthesis is a gripping testament of struggle, fragility, acceptance, and transformation" -- Back cover.