Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story - Couverture rigide

Wertz, Julia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0762468254 ISBN 13 : 9780762468256

Editeur : Black Dog & Leventhal, 2023

Synopsis

In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery.

Opening at the culmination of a disastrous trip to Puerto Rico, the first page of Impossible People finds Julia standing stupefied in the middle of the jungle beside a rental Jeep she's just crashed. From this moment, the story flashes back to the beginning of her five-year journey towards sobriety that includes group therapy sessions, relapses, an ill-fated relationship, terrible dates, and an unceremonious eviction from her New York City apartment. Far from the typical addiction narrative that follows an upward trajectory from rock bottom to rehab to recovery, Impossible People portrays the lesser told but more common story: That the road to recover is not always linear. With unflinching honesty, Wertz details the arduous, frustrating, and hilarious story of trying and failing and trying again.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist and amateur historian. She has published five graphic novels and does monthly history comics for The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In this unflinching comic memoir celebrated cartoonist and author of the New York Times Notable Book, Tenements, Towers & Trash Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0762468254
• ISBN 13: 9780762468256
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible