The Secret to Superhuman Strength

The Secret to Superhuman StrengthFrom the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times. Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe sized guns!") to the existential

He aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century

The title of the book refers to the forty acres of Montana land Welch's father once leased from a Blackfeet family called Earthboy

ranging from personal history to cultural teachings

On long winter evenings

keeper of the water

Carma Corcoran examines the rising number of Native American women being incarcerated in Indian Country

Lakota artwork

" —Luther Standing Bear

and we easily forget what matters most for our health and happiness: the spirit and wellness that have sustained our ancestors and our entire human family for as long as we've existed on the planet

It is a celebration of old and new

which is the beginning

In this collection of paintings and stories