Bipolar Bear and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Health Insurance - A Fable for Grownups

A graphic novel about navigating the US medical insurance system and receiving fair and adequate coverage for mental illness. Based on the author's own experience in being treated for bipolar disorder.

About the author

Kathleen Founds is the author of the prize-winning When Mystical Creatures Attack! Her work has appeared in the New Yorker online, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Good Housekeeping, The Sun, The Rumpus, The Hairpin, Buzzfeed, and Salon, among other publications. She teaches fiction writing at Cabrillo College and philosophy of nonviolence at Cal State Monterey Bay. Her website is www.kathleenfounds.com.

Summary

A graphic novel about navigating the US medical insurance system and receiving fair and adequate coverage for mental illness. Based on the author’s own experience in being treated for bipolar disorder.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Founds, Founds Kathleen
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9781637790359
• ISBN: 978-1-63779-035-9
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Illustrations: Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; FICTION / Satire, MEDICAL / Mental Health, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, Mental health services, Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs, Psychiatric and mental disorders