Carcazan Publishing – förlag

Wars, genocides and tropes aim to erase and separate.Not for Davie, a Jewish girl from New York, and Sondos, a girl in Gaza, born and raised in Palestine.When the two start exchanging messages and then emails following Davie's enchantment with Sondos's poetry collection received as a thank you for Davie's support, the two conjure a surprising friendship learning about each other's lives, and realising just how close they are despite their circumstances.Within these two polar yet concurrent realities flicker uniting emotions, personality, the power of empathy and listening, hopes and dreams in impossible times and memories as if already buried by reality yet being something to still aspire towards. A painful parallel of each author's respective experience of erasure permeates tenderly. As these two authors get to know eachother, so too do we join their embrace. Their unlikely connection transcends borders, politics, religion and nationalities with their most powerful weapon: humanity.And a love of donuts.With beautifully intricate map illustrations by Natali De Mello their journey invites you as their guest, and offers a blueprint to a new world, challenging old narratives with a new song.

What do you do when you discover you have breast cancer on your birthday just as you're about to start a new job?Rose Drew knew what to do. Write. Laugh. Cry. Spread the word. Do it. Have the last word. Share.Be as bemused as it takes to breathe again. "Ordinarily, I loathe the notion of "battling" cancer or "fighting" this disease. No darling.The fight will be against insurance, fear, crap doctors, funding, and time.Put on your Boudica Face and get in there." This poetry collection poetry cathartically charts Rose Drew's personal experiences of the condition, its treatment, mastectomy and its impact on life, memory and unusual practicalities. With a fistful of humour, Rose Drew throws down the gauntlet to cancer itself. She's not laughing at the experience, she's breathing rhythmically through every line, offering a map to resilience and self-love. FrankenTit is as empowering as it is heartrending, as hilarious as it is profound, as candid an ogle into the human soul at a time of life and death as any scan.