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Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780375425400)
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xFrom the author of My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, a new graphic memoir brimming with black humor, which explores the ultimate irony: the author's addiction to 12-Step programs.
"Say what you mean, but don't say it mean." --12-Step aphorism David Heatley had an unquestionably troubled and eccentric childhood: father a sexually repressed alcoholic, mother an overworked compulsive overeater. Then David's parents enter the world of 12-step programs and find a sense of support and community. It seems to help. David, meanwhile, grows up struggling with his own troublesome sexual urges and seeking some way to make sense of it all. Eventually he starts attending meetings too. Alcoholics Anonymous. Overeaters Anonymous. Debtors Anonymous. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. More and more meetings. Meetings for issues he doesn't have. With stark, sharply drawn art and unflinching honesty, David Heatley explores the strange and touching relationships he develops, and the truths about himself and his family he is forced to confront, while "working" an ever-increasing number of programs. The result is a complicated, unsettling, and hilarious journey--of far more than 12 steps.
Author: David Heatley
ISBN-10: 0375425403
ISBN-13: 9780375425400
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 80
Booklist 10/15/2019 pg. 41
Shelf Awareness 10/18/2019
"Say what you mean, but don't say it mean." --12-Step aphorism David Heatley had an unquestionably troubled and eccentric childhood: father a sexually repressed alcoholic, mother an overworked compulsive overeater. Then David's parents enter the world of 12-step programs and find a sense of support and community. It seems to help. David, meanwhile, grows up struggling with his own troublesome sexual urges and seeking some way to make sense of it all. Eventually he starts attending meetings too. Alcoholics Anonymous. Overeaters Anonymous. Debtors Anonymous. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. More and more meetings. Meetings for issues he doesn't have. With stark, sharply drawn art and unflinching honesty, David Heatley explores the strange and touching relationships he develops, and the truths about himself and his family he is forced to confront, while "working" an ever-increasing number of programs. The result is a complicated, unsettling, and hilarious journey--of far more than 12 steps.
Author: David Heatley
ISBN-10: 0375425403
ISBN-13: 9780375425400
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 80
Booklist 10/15/2019 pg. 41
Shelf Awareness 10/18/2019
By David Heatley
xDAVID HEATLEY's comics and drawings have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker and in every section of The New York Times. His work has also appeared in Granta, McSweeney's, Best American Comics (cover artist), Nickelodeon Magazine, and Time Out, among many others. His first graphic memoir, My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, was published in the US, UK, France, Spain and Belgium. He lives in Jackson Heights, New York, with his wife Rebecca Gopoian and their two children.
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