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"""Impossible People hurts and is hilarious at the same time. This book is like a visit with an old good friend--you spend the whole night laughing and crying and when you leave, you think, 'Wow, I needed that!'""--Eleanor Davis, author of The Hard Tomorrow ""[Julia Wertz] wrestles with sobriety in this forthright, wickedly funny graphic memoir...[Her] punch lines are as perfectly timed and indelicate as ever, and she's augmented her trademark candor with probing insight... Unvarnished yet buoyant, this recovery memoir presents Wertz at her wry best and is sure to recruit new fans to her scrappy, irreverent diaries of the absurd."" --Publishers Weekly, starred review ""Julia Wertz makes the personal effortlessly universal, sneaking past our usual defenses with grace, charm, and/or a fart joke. Impossible People is a funny, sad, hopeful, messy, charming--and true--story, and I loved every part of it...It's a new height for an already towering cartoonist."" --Ryan North, author of How to Take Over the World and the graphic novel adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five. ""No one but Julia Wertz could make such a devastating story of addiction and recovery so damn funny and charming. This book makes me miss New York desperately, and miss drinking and singledom not at all. Best of all, it made me laugh out loud! Read it."" --Adam Conover, comedian and creator of Adam Ruins Everything"

Impossible People hurts and is hilarious at the same time. This book is like a visit with an old good friend--you spend the whole night laughing and crying and when you leave, you think, 'Wow, I needed that!' --Eleanor Davis, author of The Hard Tomorrow [Julia Wertz] wrestles with sobriety in this forthright, wickedly funny graphic memoir...[Her] punch lines are as perfectly timed and indelicate as ever, and she's augmented her trademark candor with probing insight... Unvarnished yet buoyant, this recovery memoir presents Wertz at her wry best and is sure to recruit new fans to her scrappy, irreverent diaries of the absurd. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Julia Wertz makes the personal effortlessly universal, sneaking past our usual defenses with grace, charm, and/or a fart joke. Impossible People is a funny, sad, hopeful, messy, charming--and true--story, and I loved every part of it...It's a new height for an already towering cartoonist. --Ryan North, author of How to Take Over the World and the graphic novel adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five. Julia Wertz's Tenements, Towers and Trash is nothing short of extraordinary. --Roz Chast No one but Julia Wertz could make such a devastating story of addiction and recovery so damn funny and charming. This book makes me miss New York desperately, and miss drinking and singledom not at all. Best of all, it made me laugh out loud! Read it. --Adam Conover, comedian and creator of Adam Ruins Everything

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Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, and part-time urban explorer. Her books include The Fart Party, Museum of Mistakes, Drinking at the Movies, The Infinite Wait and Other Stories, and Tenements, Towers, & Trash: An Unconventional, Illustrated History of New York City. She does monthly comics and doodles for the New Yorker and the New York Times. After leaving New York City, she settled down in Northern California with Oliver (yes, that Oliver) and their son, Felix.

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