Review by Muniyra Douglas A life turned upside down by a single phone call. A young woman must navigate difficult familial, platonic, and romantic relationships suddenly impacted by a new medical revelation. Kimiko Does Cancer is a graphic memoir written by Kimiko Tobimatsu and illustrated by Keet Geniza. It’s the first novel for both and it follows Kimiko’s harrowing journey as she balances life, relationships, and her career while battling breast cancer. Although described as a cancer-survivor narrative, the novel, like Kimiko, is not a monolith. As a queer, mixed-raced woman, Kimiko provides a unique outlook on her medical journey, which subverts the traditional cancer narrative. It conjures uncomfortable, often-ignored conversations around poor medical advice, fertility and family planning, sexual intimacy, social isolation, and mortality. Working as an unemployment lawyer, Kimiko understandably finds herself struggling to balance work while battling cancer. She mismanages work burnout and, due to the medication, experiences menopause-like symptoms, periodically exhibiting hot flashes during client consultations. This, inclusive of her “age, race, gender, and gender presentation,” vastly undermines her credibility as a lawyer. Kimiko’s internal dialogue brings acute awareness to the considerable discrimination she encounters within the professional sector even prior to her diagnosis.