In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel recounts her life through six decades of fitness fads.
It’s a fun and engaging way to approach her life story, but even more, Bechdel explores how various exercise methods served as a way for her to explore her mind-body connection and her place in the universe.
Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.
Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear.
The Secret to Superhuman Strength “is a far more sprawling project than Bechdel’s two previous and entirely virtuosic graphic memoirs: Fun Home, about her father, and Are You My Mother?, about her mother,” Elizabeth Weil said a review in The New York Times.
“The format is larger, too, and the reader feels more space on the page to breathe, which can’t be a random choice.”
