THE LEFT SIDE OF ME: Everything the Blood Remembers: A Graphic Novel Script in Twelve Chapters

When Mara Solano returns to her small Oregon coast town after her twin brother Eli dies of a mysterious illness, she expects to find grief. What she does not expect is the warmth.It starts in her left arm a faint glow beneath the skin, a river of light running from her wrist to her shoulder. A doctor in training, Mara knows what it is: microchimerism. The documented biological phenomenon by which a twin's cells persist inside their sibling's body for a lifetime. Eli's cells. Alive. Inside her.And then, quietly, she begins to hear him.Not in her ears. Behind her sternum.Over one winter in Vantharow, Oregon, Mara does three things. She opens her dead brother's room. She uncovers the truth about the doctor who treated him a man she trusted, whose research used Eli's body in ways he never consented to. And she learns, slowly and with enormous difficulty, the difference between holding on and carrying forward.The Left Side of Me is a work of literary fiction told in twelve chapters across one winter on the Oregon coast. It is a story about grief as biology, love as matter, and the specific difficult work of learning to open your hands.For readers of A Little Life, Normal People, and The Midnight Library.His cells are in her blood. The warmth is real. It stays. Read more