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Book

Impossible people : a completely average recovery story

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL 921 W499 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2023.

Physical Description

320 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

"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, Impossible People finds Wertz 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."--

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