PREORDER NOW | Official Release: November 10, 2026
Lifectomy is available for preorder! Reserve your copy today ahead of its official release.
Please note: Payment is collected at the time of purchase. Preorders will begin shipping on or around November 10th. You'll receive a shipping confirmation and tracking information once your order is on its way.
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At thirty, Ashley Gierke’s world split open with a breast cancer diagnosis. Surgery, scars, and the fear of recurrence marked her body and her life. Searching for a way through the pain, she turned to drawing. Line by line, she began to map her grief, transmute her sadness and fear, and eventually transform herself.
Lifectomy is a memoir told through 75 drawings and the stories that surround them. It is a book about survival and self-discovery, about ending a long-term relationship and stepping into the vulnerable terrain of dating again, and finding joy even with mortality close at hand.
More than an illness story, this is an artist’s journey: raw, honest, and unexpectedly beautiful. Lifectomy invites readers into the intimate space where trauma and creativity meet and where resilience takes shape.
"This book has been more than a decade in the making. The drawings inside were never originally intended to become a book. They were simply how I made sense of what I was living through. Years later, I returned to them and realized they told a powerful story. Lifectomy is that story, and I’m so happy to finally share it with you. I hope it touches your heart." - Ashley Gierke, Author
Product Details: Format: Hardcover Page Count: 185 Images: 75 color drawings Book Size: 8.75" wide × 11.25" high x 0.625" thick ISBN: 979-8-218-84692-3 Published: October 2026
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