Description
Once, years ago, while walking her dogs in the woods, Elizabeth found a dead body.
Trauma can make truth hard to find. Have you ever experienced a terror, grief, or confusion so great that when you try to share it you can only find shattered images floating in darkness? You try over and over, but can't tell the story, to yourself or to anyone else. Look Again presents us with six variations of the same event, seen through the different lenses caused by other life revelations. It explores the fragmenting nature of trauma by tracing the convoluted evolution of the author's story, a process often experienced by trauma sufferers and their loved ones.
Virtual Nationwide author tour. Possible Midwest regional tour.
Major review attention
National media
Online/social media promotion
Academic marketing
Buzz mailings to mental health organizations
Potential strategic partnerships: Graphic Medicine, Sequential Artists Workshop
Promotion through the author's Instagram account: @elizabeth_trembley
Bookseller/Library promotions:
- ARC giveaways through the ABA Advance Access Newsletter
- Blad giveaways to librarians and educators who attend the NY Public Library Programming at NYComicCon, and the Brooklyn Book Festival.
- Graphic novel panels at ComicCon@Home and at NYComicCon.
About the Author
Elizabeth A. Trembley is a Lambda Literary Award-winning mystery writer (pen name Josie Gordon) and memoirist who now tells her stories in comics. She has a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Chicago. Elizabeth has taught college courses and public workshops on storytelling and comics, and currently, she works for the Sequential Artists Workshop. Elizabeth lives in West Michigan with three big dogs, two cats, and her Episcopal priest wife. And she walks in the woods every day.
Reviews
"Profoundly smart, enlightening, and challenging, yet also personal, relatable, and funny. Absolutely brilliant!"-Tom Hart, author of the New York Times bestseller Rosalie Lightning
"Trauma shatters what we think of as truth. This deeply moving memoir perfectly captures how we rewrite the stories we tell ourselves in order to heal. I'm so grateful I read it." -Danny Gregory, author of How to Draw Without Talent
"Both unsettling and reassuring, navigating the thorny and ever-branching paths of memory, psychology, fear and trauma, while excavating the power of art and comics as sources of healing." -Bishakh Som, author of Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
"This one-woman Rashomon is not only an engrossing page-turner, it's also a powerful argument for the power of comics to convey the fragmented nature of traumatic memory." -Matt Madden, author of Ex Libris
"A layered re-seeing of a traumatic event making the case that we change our own experience! In the gaps between our traumas and the stories we tell about them lie all the blanks, shifts, and elisions that we connect like dots into meaning." -Rhoda Janzen, author of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
"A master class in reassembling narratives of trauma and of self, leading us through with patience, authenticity, and vulnerability, providing a guide for the rest of us."-MK Czerwiec, author of Menopause: A Comic Treatment
"A wise, necessary consideration of memory, PTSD, and how our realities form around trauma. A welcome addition to the Graphic Medicine canon!"-Nicole J. Georges, author of Fetch and Calling Dr. Laura
Book Information
ISBN 9781951491185
Author Elizabeth A. Trembley
Format Paperback
Page Count 334
Imprint Street Noise Books
Publisher Street Noise Books
