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This beautiful, ridiculous city : a graphic memoir / by Kay Sohini.
Van Pelt Library PN6727.S558 Z46 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sohini, Kay, author, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sohini, Kay--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Sohini, Kay.
- Psychologically abused women--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Psychologically abused women.
- Women, East Indian--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Women, East Indian.
- City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Comic books, strips, etc.
- City and town life.
- New York (N.Y.)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- New York (N.Y.).
- City and town life--New York (State)--New York.
- Cities and towns.
- Battered Women.
- Emotional Abuse.
- Cities.
- United States.
- New York.
- New York City.
- India.
- cities.
- Medical Subjects:
- Battered Women.
- Emotional Abuse.
- Cities.
- United States.
- New York.
- New York City.
- India.
- Genre:
- graphic novels.
- Autobiographical comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- First US edition.
- Place of Publication:
- California : Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "On her first night in New York City, Kay Sohini sits on the tarmac of JFK Airport making an inventory of everything she's left behind in India: her family, friends, home, and gaslighting ex-boyfriend. In the wake of that untethering she realizes two things: she's finally made it to the city of her literary heroes -- Kerouac, Plath, Bechdel -- and the trauma she's endured has created gaping holes in her memory. As Kay begins the work of piecing herself back together she discovers the deep sense of belonging that can only be found on the streets of New York City. In the process she falls beautifully, ridiculously in love with the bustling landscape, and realizes that the places we love do not always love us back but can still somehow save us in weird, unexpected ways. At once heartbreaking and uplifting, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City explores the relationship between trauma and truth, displacement and belonging, and what it means to forge a life of one's own."-- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Refrain 1
- Chapter 1: New York before New York
- Chapter 2: The nineties, the new millennium, and a postcolonial nation
- Chapter 3: Clementines, because in Bengali, we do not say, "I love you"
- Refrain 2
- Chapter 4: A death and a disappearing act
- Refrain 3
- Chapter 5: New York, New York
- Chapter 6: A room of one's own in this beautiful, ridiculous city
- Epilogue
- Credits
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
- ISBN:
- 9780593836156
- 0593836154
- OCLC:
- 1432400992
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