A Life Less Convenient: Letters To My Ex Is A Collection Of Fictionalized Short Stories Told In The Form Of Letters To Loves Lost During The Onset And Daily Complications Of Chronic Illness. Each Letter Details The Emotional And Physical Realities Of A Couple Dealing With Illness, And The Transitions That Inevitably Occur As They Learn To Navigate Through The Complex Changes. The Book Portrays The Complex, Often Ambivalent Relationship Of The Body In Love And In Disease Through Both Pictures And Text. Each Letter Illuminates The Physical And Emotional Journey The Narrator Takes As Her Previously Healthy Body Transitions?the Humiliation Of Needing Help With Shaving?the Joy Of Fresh, Cold Water On A Searing Hot Day...her Complex Relationship With Her Walker?coping With The Loss Of Hair And Skin. The Ugliness Of The Disease Is Offset With Moments Of Transcendence And Fidelity As She Struggles To Own Her New Body.the 22 Letters Are Illustrated By An International Group Of Artists, Including:sara Lando, Chris Koelbleitner, Yanni Raptis, Camil Tulcan, Hans Proppe, Duncan Gold, Fernando Montiel Klint, Daniella Zalcman, Vicki Stephenson, Adam Booth, Valentin Casarsa, Peter Nguyen, And Jose Carlos Pires Pereira.