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The Book Show #1712 - Alison Bechdel

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published May 11, 2021 at 3:00 PM EDT
Modified Book cover artwork for "The Secret to Superhuman Strenght" by Alison Bechdel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel is back and 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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