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Alison Bechdel - The Secret to Superhuman Strength

By Joe Donahue
Published November 30, 2021 at 3:00 PM EST
Modified Book cover artwork for "The Secret to Superhuman Strenght" by Alison Bechdel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel is back and once again she has reinvented memoir, as she did with “Fun Home”, this time by telling her life story decade by decade through the lens of her lifelong obsession with exercise. Her new graphic memoir is “The Secret to Superhuman Strength.”
Originally aired as The Book Show #1712.

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Joe Donahue
Joe talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human "gets" - he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book.
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