Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps
David Heatley$22.91
$26.95
From the author of My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, a new graphic memoir brimming with black humor, which explores the ultimate irony: the author's addiction to 12-Step programs.
"Say what you mean, but don't say it mean." --12-Step aphorism David Heatley had an unquestionably troubled and eccentric childhood: father a sexually repressed alcoholic, mother an overworked compulsive overeater. Then David's parents enter the world of 12-step programs and find a sense of support and community. It seems to help. David, meanwhile, grows up struggling with his own troublesome sexual urges and seeking some way to make sense of it all. Eventually he starts attending meetings too. Alcoholics Anonymous. Overeaters Anonymous. Debtors Anonymous. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. More and more meetings. Meetings for issues he doesn't have. With stark, sharply drawn art and unflinching honesty, David Heatley explores the strange and touching relationships he develops, and the truths about himself and his family he is forced to confront, while "working" an ever-increasing number of programs. The result is a complicated, unsettling, and hilarious journey--of far more than 12 steps.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 10/01/2019
ISBN: 9780375425400
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.20d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 80
Booklist 10/15/2019 pg. 41
Shelf Awareness 10/18/2019
"Say what you mean, but don't say it mean." --12-Step aphorism David Heatley had an unquestionably troubled and eccentric childhood: father a sexually repressed alcoholic, mother an overworked compulsive overeater. Then David's parents enter the world of 12-step programs and find a sense of support and community. It seems to help. David, meanwhile, grows up struggling with his own troublesome sexual urges and seeking some way to make sense of it all. Eventually he starts attending meetings too. Alcoholics Anonymous. Overeaters Anonymous. Debtors Anonymous. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. More and more meetings. Meetings for issues he doesn't have. With stark, sharply drawn art and unflinching honesty, David Heatley explores the strange and touching relationships he develops, and the truths about himself and his family he is forced to confront, while "working" an ever-increasing number of programs. The result is a complicated, unsettling, and hilarious journey--of far more than 12 steps.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 10/01/2019
ISBN: 9780375425400
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.20d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 80
Booklist 10/15/2019 pg. 41
Shelf Awareness 10/18/2019