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What happened to her baby felt so unreal, she wrote a fairy tale about it.

Lenore Eklund's 'Release' is a 185-page graphic novel treatment of her daughter's medical challenges

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Shasta Kearns Moore
Oct 03, 2021
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Author Lenore Eklund outside her Portland home with her new graphic novel, ‘Release.’ Photo by Shasta Kearns Moore

It all started with a sketchpad and a surreal motherhood experience.

Lenore Eklund, an erstwhile documentary filmmaker, began by drawing pleasant little doodles while somewhere nearby her daughter’s skull was opened.

It was 2017 and Eklund was…

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