Secret to Superhuman Strength

The Secret to Superhuman Strength is a Christmas must-gift graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home. It explores the author's lifelong search for an elusive secret to superhuman strength and the challenges she faces as she gets older. The book is a deeply personal story about selfhood, self-sabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 06 May 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home comes this Christmas must-gift graphic novel. Alison Bechdel has searched her entire life for an elusive secret—the secret to superhuman strength. She has looked for it in her favorite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weightlifting—you name it, she's tried it. Oh, to be self-sufficient! Hard as a rock! An island! But as she gets older, her body isn't getting any stronger. And in a changing, sometimes overwhelming world, are cantaloupe-sized guns all a person needs? Maybe the all-important secret is not where she expected to find it.

The Secret to Superhuman Strength practically glows with a beguiling mixture of intellect, warmth, and humor. The Daily Telegraph described it as a "deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, self-sabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation." This is an extraordinary, laugh-out-loud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world. Truly, a must-gift book this Christmas.

Weight: 950g
Dimension: 260 x 195 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780224101905