**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.
