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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.
About the Author
Julia Wertz was born in the San Francisco bay area in 1982 and currently lives in New York City. She is the author/illustrator of the autobiographic comic books The Fart Party vol 1 and vol 2 (Atomic Books, 2007/2009) Drinking at the Movies (Random House, 2010) and The Infinite Wait and Other Stories (Koyama Press, 2012) Museum of Mistakes (Atomic Books, 2014) and Tenements, Towers & Trash (Hachette, Oct 2017) She does monthly history and autobio comics for the New Yorker, and monthly cityscape illustrations for Harper's Magazine. See her comics at juliawertz.com and her photography of abandoned places at adventurebibleschool.com
