This Beautiful, Ridiculous City - A Graphic Memoir

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is a visually elaborate, full-colour graphic memoir about a literature, culture and New York A homecoming in reverse, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is about moving across the world to escape a deeply abusive relationship, about recovering one''s memories from fragmentation through writing, about finding one''s way home through food, and about New York through an immigrant perspective. Kay Sohini''s New York City is more diverse than depicted in the nineties sitcoms the author grew up with, infinitely more ridiculous than captured in any cultural production, and more beautiful than she could have hoped for. This Beautiful, Ridiculous City uses the personal as a window into gendered abuse and its effect on memory, as well as into cultural imperialism, migration and assimilation. It is also about the implications of deeply loving and calling a place home where you are, on some level, always seen as foreign and the Other.

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This is such a rich book, both visually and narratively. Kay Sohini captures a vivid sense of place through literature, landscape and food, taking us on a journey from the heady suburbs of Calcutta to the New York that has so enchanted her. Isabel Greenberg, author of Young Hag

Product details

• Authors: Kay Sohini
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2024
• EAN: 9781787334588
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-458-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 212 mm x 286 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; New York City, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Fantasy, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Horror, Migration, immigration and emigration, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Society / culture, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Fantasy, esoteric, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Horror / supernatural