**A GUARDIAN OBSERVER AND FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK** **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE
BOOK OF 2021** From the bestselling award-winning author of Fun Home comes this Christmas's
must-gift graphic novel. All her life Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret...
The secret to superhuman strength. She has looked for it in her favourite 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 humour' Daily Telegraph In this her third
graphic memoir Alison Bechdel has written 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.
