Waiting for Sleep

Matsuki Masutani

From Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me, published by Freehand Books in 2010. Sarah Leavitt is a Vancouver writer and comics artist who contributes regularly to Geist, most recently “The Authoritative Field Guide to Language Vermin” (No. 76). Visit her at sarahleavitt.com.

This comic appears in the Geist 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition.

Matsuki Masutani

Sarah Leavitt is the author of the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My mother, and Me, which was a finalist for the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2010 and is currently in development as a feature-length animation. Leavitt teaches comics classes at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Visit her at sarahleavitt.com.


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