Something new : tales from a makeshift bride / by Lucy Knisley.
In 2010, Lucy and her long-term boyfriend John broke up. Three long, lonely years later, John returned to New York, walked into Lucy's apartment, and proposed. This is not that story. It is the story of what came after: The Wedding.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781626722491
- ISBN: 1626722498
- Physical Description: 291 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : First Second, 2016.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Part One: The Boy -- How We Met -- Wedding Season -- Salvaged Parts -- A Light That Never Goes Out -- Part Two: The Bride -- Mixed Feelings -- Emotion Sickness -- Motivations -- My Feminist Party -- Part Three: The Puff, The Place, The Plate, And The Playlist -- Fancy Lady: 101 -- Just A Simple Barn Wedding -- Chicken Or Fish? -- It's Electric -- Part Four: The Pretty -- Do Or DIY -- Never Enough Parties -- Money Money Money -- Part Five: The Big Day -- Traditions -- Wedding Week -- The Wedding -- Married Life Goes On -- The Happily Ever Aftermath -- Afterword. |
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Subject: | Knisley, Lucy > Comic books, strips, etc. Weddings > Planning > Comic books, strips, etc. |
Genre: | Autobiographical comics. Nonfiction comics. Nonfiction comics. |
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Lucy Knisley is the author and illustrator of beloved graphic novels about memory, identity, food, and family. Her Alex Award-winning graphic novel, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, tells the story of her childhood steeped in the food industry. It was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into five languages. Her travelogues (French Milk, An Age of License, and Displacement) and web comic series (Stop Paying Attention) have been lauded by critics, and her combined work has built her a devoted readership for her honest and thoughtful true-life stories. Her recent graphic memoirs include Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride. She lives and works in Chicago, with her new husband.