Martha Grover
Published: 2021-11
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Sorry I Was Gone by Martha Grover is an illustrated lyric memoir that maps the narratives and myths of womanhood, chronic illness, and reality-TV depictions of The American Dream. Through short, incisive pieces, Grover hangs diet culture, classism, and ableism out to dry. Original illustrations visually traverse the lyric, the myth, the joke, the medical pro/con list, and the survival kit with Grover's signature folk flare. Sorry I Was Gone exposes to absurdity the arbitrary metrics by which we judge our lives. Revealing the cracks and failures of systems created by humans, Sorry I Was Gone also grounds us all in our humanity.