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How We Got By
111 People Share Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope through Hardship
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See moreWhen your world is upended, how do you react? Who do you become? New York Times columnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in this gorgeously illustrated collection of sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating first-person stories.
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When your world is upended, how do you react? Who do you become? New York Times columnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in this gorgeously illustrated collection of sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating first-person stories.
Based on one of Feinberg and Rothman's columns in the New York Times, “How We Got By: New Yorkers’ Advice for Getting Through a Crisis,” How We Got By is an ambitious journalistic undertaking rendered in an artful, collectible package. Each story is accompanied by one of Rothman’s full-colour illustrated portraits, offering personal accounts that touch on a wide variety of subjects, including money and business, relationships, family, trauma, and death.
A window into the world of how others think, feel, and, ultimately, survive, How We Got By invites us to remember our shared humanity as well as our truly extraordinary resilience.
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ISBN: 9781524872311
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 12 October 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 180.0mm
Height: 231.0mm
Weight: 841g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
Julia Rothman is the author and/or illustrator of fourteen books, including Nature Anatomy, Ladies Drawing Night, and Hello, New York. In 2017, she cofounded––with Wendy MacNaughton––Women Who Draw, an open directory of female-identifying illustrators, artists, and cartoonists.
Shaina Feinberg is a New York City-born-and-raised author and filmmaker whose character-driven films explore themes of gender and sexism with heart and humor. She has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and has a regular column in the New York Times.
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