The Secret to Superhuman Strength Alison Bechdel
Jonathan Cape
The secret to superhuman strength She has looked for it in her favourite books the lives of her heroes celibacy polyamory activism therapy and most obsessively in her lifelong passion for exercise Skiing running karate cycling yoga weight lifting you name it she s tried it Oh to be self sufficient Hard as a rock An island But as she gets older her body isn t getting any stronger And in a changing sometimes overwhelming world are cantaloupe sized guns all a person needs Maybe the all important secret is not where she expected to find it In this her third graphic memoir Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered personal story about selfhood self sabotage mortality addiction bliss wonder and the concerns of a generation This is an extraordinary laugh out loud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world
