The Secret of Superhuman Strength

Comic book superstar Alison Bechdel reflects on self-improvement, death, and her lifelong obsession with exercise in this extremely funny memoir. From childhood to mature adulthood, she gradually fell for all the fitness trends of our time. The more she improved her body, the more her own self got in the way. She turned to Eastern philosophers and beatnik poets to approach the mystery of superhuman power. Her findings are intellectually honest and humanly deeply moving.