Coco Picard

Coco Picard is a writer, cartoonist, and curator. She is the author of two graphic novels, Meowsers (forthcoming) and The Chronicles of Fortune (2017), which was nominated for a DiNKy Award. Art criticism and comics have otherwise appeared under the name Caroline Picard in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Paris Review, and Seven Stories Press, among others. She started the Green Lantern Press in 2005, received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute and was a Bookends Fellow at Stony Brook University.


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Black and white illsutration of the backside of a nude woman atop a hill with two trees seemingly growing horizontally out of her. Yellow text reads "The Healing Circle, a novel by Coco Picard" with an award seal declaring the book "Winner of the Red Hen Press Women's Prose Award"
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The Healing Circle

Coco Picard

Publication Date: August 16, 2022

$17.95 Tradepaper

ISBN: 9781636280516

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A mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she might have already died. Bedridden with a terminal diagnosis, memories, nurses, immoral doctors, foreign television broadcasts, and phone calls from children intrude upon her consciousness. An aloe plant called Madame Blavatsky is her primary companion.

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 “The Healing Circle is a far-reaching, honest, and funny novel about dying and living, a kind of pilgrimage to wholeness through uncertainty and disorientation. Full of resonance, it asks what it means to heal, to be in pain, to be a person.”

—Amina Cain, author of Indelicacy

“The Healing Circle is wry, subtle, and daring. Coco Picard has written a vivid novel about living, dying, and remembering.”

—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion

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LARB Reviews Coco Picard’s THE HEALING CIRCLE

HOPE, WHEN HELD past the point of reason, is liable to transform into a certain kind of absurdity. Over the course of The Healing Circle — the latest novel from writer, artist, […]