{"product_id":"breakthrough-life-on-the-brink","title":"BREAKTHROUGH - LIFE ON THE BRINK","description":"\u003ch5\u003eBreakthrough is a tragicomic memoir detailing the author's search for belonging while navigating inadequate caregivers, romantic misadventures, the looping path of a career artist, and a terminal brain tumor.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChris Fink has just awoken in the desert. Soaked, disoriented, the first person he sees is his own fictional character. What is reality? What does an eco-feminist movement from the future — and a long-abandoned but never-forgotten indie comic, Leopold \u0026amp; Brink — have to do with his predicament? From this SF framework emerges a metafictional memoir, as epic and intimate as life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmbarking in earnest with the onset of the 2020 lockdowns, Fink’s years-long journey of graphic healing hit an unexpected detour when he received a brain cancer diagnosis midway through constructing this book. Not to be deterred, the tragedy and comedy of life become tools to break new liberative ground, a lifetime of drawing conjures fresh and playful visual expressions to compliment his stream of consciousness style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVonnegut-esque slipstreams of memory weave together tumultuous youth, romantic misadventures, and the looping pathways of a working artist, in a tapestry of loss and longing. Buoyed by the ephemera of yesteryear, this is an ode to the comics, film, and TV that raised him, and the adults who didn’t. A saga of catharsis and reconciliation, Breakthrough: Life on the Brink is a story to live by.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW NORTON","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52879656550709,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/3030\/9430\/files\/9798875002182_800_540x_27ffc6f6-8be4-4c2c-a925-50bf09ed486a.jpg?v=1778724628","url":"https:\/\/shop.floatingworldcomics.com\/products\/breakthrough-life-on-the-brink","provider":"Floating World Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}