![]() ![]() The book is certainly light and fun in parts, but like 2006's Fun Home and 2012’s Are You My Mother?, the new work is a wonderland of literary allusions and introspection. Structured decade by decade, beginning in the 1960s and ending in present day, the book charts Bechdel’s relationship with her own body through the lens of popular fitness fads like the advent of workout videos, karate, and mountain biking. Nearly a decade later, Bechdel, who turned 60 last September, is ready to reveal The Secret to Superhuman Strength, a comic chronicle of her lifelong pursuit of physical fitness. ![]() Right around the time she sold the theatrical rights to her groundbreaking graphic memoir Fun Home-which went on to become a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical in 2015-Alison Bechdel began work on what she called “a light, fun memoir about my athletic life that I could bang out quickly.” ![]()
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