{"title":"Books by Julia Wertz","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780316501217","title":"Tenements, Towers \u0026 Trash","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn acclaimed cartoonist presents New York City as you've never seen it before, with a side-splittingly funny illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, the guts, and the little known charms (and horrors) of the greatest city in the world.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTenements, Towers \u0026amp; Trash\u003c\/i\u003e, Julia Wertz takes us behind, underneath, around, and into the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York (the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all), but the underbelly of the city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes \"Then and Now\" and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, \u003ci\u003eTenements, Towers \u0026amp; Trash\u003c\/i\u003e is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year**\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56232872149365,"sku":"9780316501217","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780316501217_48816da3-82af-4839-a06e-118aae3d515f.jpg?v=1786013558"},{"product_id":"9780762468256","title":"Impossible People","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn his keenly observed graphic memoir celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Opening at the culmination of a disastrous trip to Puerto Rico, the first page of Impossible People finds Julia standing stupefied in the middle of the jungle beside a rental Jeep she's just crashed. From this moment, the story flashes back to the beginning of her five-year journey towards sobriety that includes group therapy sessions, relapses, an ill-fated relationship, terrible dates, and an unceremonious eviction from her New York City apartment. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Far from the typical addiction narrative that follows an upward trajectory from rock bottom to rehab to recovery, \u003ci\u003eImpossible People \u003c\/i\u003eportrays the lesser told but more common story: That the road to recover is not always linear. With unflinching honesty, Wertz details the arduous, frustrating, and hilarious story of trying and failing and trying again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR Books We Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e Favorite Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e Reviews Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294807273845,"sku":"9780762468256","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780762468256_220ce675-af08-4658-a000-d6b59cde0c13.jpg?v=1786015897"},{"product_id":"9781941250464","title":"Museum of Mistakes","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor almost two decades, Julia Wertz has been documenting her life’s most intimate, absurd, and amusing moments through a whimsical and hilarious diary comic book called \u003ci\u003eThe Fart Party\u003c\/i\u003e. Wertz retells childhood antics that end in scars and swears. She tracks, in real-time, her young adulthood as she forgot her college graduation, traveled cross country via train, and drank her way through a harsh break-up. After receiving much acclaim (and controversy), \u003ci\u003eThe Fart Party\u003c\/i\u003e became a series of self-published mini-comics, eventually collected into two volumes, published by Atomic Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong out of print, \u003ci\u003eMuseum of Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e collects anything and everything that is \u003ci\u003eThe Fart Party\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePLUS: numerous pages of Julia’s early comic work, unpublished and previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages, hate mail, sketchbook pages, tear stains, and more. This massive tome begs the question, “what is a Fart Party?” And the answer is... you’ll have to read to find out!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309632401781,"sku":"9781941250464","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781941250464_2ca29da4-8682-4db7-b737-44a01fe4908f.jpg?v=1786030921"},{"product_id":"9780316582339","title":"Tenements, Towers \u0026 Trash","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn acclaimed cartoonist presents New York City as you've never seen it before, with a side-splittingly funny illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, the guts, and the little known charms (and horrors) of the greatest city in the world.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTenements, Towers \u0026amp; Trash\u003c\/i\u003e, Julia Wertz takes us behind, underneath, around, and into the New York that you think you know. 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After a surprise pregnancy and a marriage proposal, Julia settles (somewhat reluctantly) into a quiet life in a small town. But as 2020 approaches, her world, and the world at large, takes a sharp turn toward unexpected chaos. Through comic vignettes, essays, and diary doodles, Julia recounts the events of her pregnancy and its attendant body horror, a miscarriage, family trauma, marriage, a life-altering accident, and the joy and surprises of parenthood as it all unfolds against the backdrop of local wildfires and a global pandemic. The result of this unconventional collection is a heart-wrenching and hilarious story of adversity, resilience, and, ultimately, love.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481462448501,"sku":"9780762468287","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780762468287.jpg?v=1786089725"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-julia-wertz.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}