Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Wertz, Julia

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

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Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Wertz, Julia

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

$46.22

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

$46.22
Author: Julia Wertz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

**NPR "BOOKS WE LOVE"**
**SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR""**
**PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"**
**KIRKUS "BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"**
**LIBRARY JOURNAL "BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"**

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.

Author: Julia Wertz
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: 05/09/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780762468256


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/27/2023
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2023
Shelf Awareness 05/12/2023
Booklist 05/31/2023
Library Journal 11/17/2023 pg. 1

About the Author
Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, and part-time urban explorer. Her books include The Fart Party, Museum of Mistakes, Drinking at the Movies, The Infinite Wait and Other Stories, and Tenements, Towers, & Trash: An Unconventional, Illustrated History of New York City. She does monthly comics and doodles for the New Yorker and the New York Times. After leaving New York City, she settled down in Northern California with Oliver (yes, that Oliver) and their son, Felix.

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