At once heartrending and enlivening this phenomenal graphic memoir is not another ode to New
York but a meditation on how easy it is to fall beautifully ridiculously in loveOn her first
night in New York Kay Sohini sits on the tarmac of JFK airport making an inventory of all
she's left behind in India. Kay realises two things: she's finally made it to the city that
made her in celluloid and prose from across the Pacific - Kerouac Friends Plath - and that
trauma she's endured in her relationship has left gaping holes in her memory. In New York at
last Kay has room to begin the work of piecing herself back together through art and food. But
as her personal story becomes a window onto a mystifying metropolis both inhospitable and
inspiring to the many who call it home Kay embarks on an electric exploration of how to forge
the self and a life of one's own today. At once heartrending and enlivening This Beautiful
Ridiculous City is not another ode to New York but a phenomenal meditation on how easy it is to
fall beautifully ridiculously in love with places - and indeed people - that do not always
love us back but somehow still save us in weird unexpected ways.
