#1712 Alison Bechdel "The Secret To Superhuman Strength" | The Book Show

May 11, 2021 00:27:40
#1712 Alison Bechdel "The Secret To Superhuman Strength" | The Book Show
The Book Show
#1712 Alison Bechdel "The Secret To Superhuman Strength" | The Book Show

May 11 2021 | 00:27:40

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Show Notes

This week, comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel is back with a new graphic novel. Once again she has reinvented memoir, as she did with “Fun Home”, this time by telling her life story decade by decade through the lens of her lifelong obsession with exercise. Her new graphic memoir is “The Secret to Superhuman Strength.”

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