Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride

by Lucy Knisley

Overview

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.

DIY maven Lucy Knisley was fascinated by American wedding culture . . . but also sort of horrified by it. So she set out to plan and execute the adorable DIY wedding to end all adorable DIY weddings. And she succeeded. This graphic novel, Something New--clocking in at almost 300 pages of humor, despair, and eternal love--is the story of how Lucy built a barn, invented a whole new kind of photo booth, and managed to turn an outdoor wedding on a rainy day into a joyous (though muddy) triumph.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626722491
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	05/03/2016
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

…digressive, meandering and entirely charming—her comics read like a letter one treasures…This is not a particularly dramatic book—nothing really goes awry on Knisley's route to the altar, aside from some rain and a few squabbles with her mom. That's fine: It's a story about a celebration, and Knisley's work is naturally celebratory. Nearly every panel includes a playful symbolic or metaphorical image…

The New York Times Book Review - Douglas Wolk

"[This] graphic-novel memoir from First Second Books follows Lucy Knisley’s own decade-long saga toward the altar, as well as her own keen and amusing observations on the marital industry she curated along the way." —The Washington Post

"It’s digressive, meandering and entirely charming — her comics read like a letter one treasures."—The New York Times

"She artfully makes the details of her own experiences appeal to different readers, but it’s the emotion behind her writing and beautiful style that manages to be both sweet and brutally honest." —AV Club

"Knisley is a wonderful creator and artist, and someone who clearly was made to be married. This book is as sweetly romantic as it is manically comedic."—Boing Boing

From the Publisher

2016 Library Journal Best Books of the Year, Long-listed