Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"Julia Wertz has been writing autobiographical comics for years, with recent digressions into documenting New York City landscapes. Now she has returned to autobiography, and her latest book opens with her standing alone in a jungle beside a wrecked car. How did she get here? With her trademark dark humor laced with earnestness, sensitivity and wit, Wertz’s wiry black-and-white comics trace the roots of her slow road to sobriety. This tome is unusually absorbing for the unflinching way the narrator exposes her uneasy path to vulnerability – with friends, other loved ones and, ultimately, herself."