Tangles: An interview with Sarah Leavitt

Sarah Leavitt is an artist, cartoonist and writer, and a member of the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia. Her comics and prose works have appeared in magazines, newspapers and anthologies in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me (2010) is her first book. The following interview was conducted through Skype on 19 May 2015. It discusses the book, its making, reception and translation.