Kay Sohini This Beautiful, Ridiculous City review, recensie en informatie over de graphic memoir over New York. Op 30 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de graphic memoir over de stad New York van de Amerikaanse auteur Kay Sohini. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de graphic memoir is niet verkrijgbaar.
Kay Sohini This Beautiful, Ridiculous City review, recensie en informatie
- “A ravishing new take on a storied city” (Katherine May)
- “This is such a rich book, both visually and narratively.” (Isabel Greenberg)
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City
A Graphic Memoir
- Auteur: Kay Sohini (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: graphic novel over New York
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
- Verschijnt: 30 januari 2025
- Omvang: 128 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek
- Prijs: £ 20,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de graphic novel over de stad New York
At once heartrending and enlivening, this phenomenal graphic memoir is not another ode to New York but a meditation on how easy it is to fall beautifully, ridiculously in love.
On her first night in New York, Kay Sohini sits on the tarmac of JFK airport making an inventory of all she’s left behind in India. Kay realises two things: she’s finally made it to the city that made her in celluloid and prose from across the Pacific – Kerouac, Friends, Plath – and that trauma she’s endured in her relationship has left gaping holes in her memory.
In New York, at last, Kay has room to begin the work of piecing herself back together through art and food. But as her personal story becomes a window onto a mystifying metropolis both inhospitable and inspiring to the many who call it home, Kay embarks on an electric exploration of how to forge the self and a life of one’s own today.
At once heartrending and enlivening, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is not another ode to New York but a phenomenal meditation on how easy it is to fall beautifully, ridiculously in love with places – and indeed people – that do not always love us back but somehow still save us in weird, unexpected ways.
Kay Sohini is a writer and artist based in New York City. With the support of the Mellon Foundation and the ACLS, she drew her doctoral dissertation in English literature as a comic. Her work has been commissioned by the Washington Post, Nib, NYC Department of Education and others. This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is her first book.