Jokes and the Unconscious

    (Cleis, 2006)
™ and © 2006 Daphne Gottlieb and Diane DiMassa

This brutal and intelligent book is the first collaboration by poet Daphne Gottlieb and artist Diane DiMassa. In it, the character Sasha recounts the story of the summer she was nineteen, the summer when she worked in a hospital billing department, met someone she truly loved, and lost her father to cancer.

Jokes and the Unconscious presents Sasha as completely honest about the events, and the art never fails to depict the characters in all their casual cruelty. As Sasha wanders the hospital in search of signatures for her forms, she meets every sort of person, from the insane to the determined to the morose, and finds the vocabulary she needs to describe her own loss.

— Jennifer McGinnis
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