Description: Raw, honest, and hilarious, Bury Me Already (It's Nice Down Here) chronicles the joy and horror of becoming a mother during challenging times.
In this follow-up to the acclaimed memoir Impossible People--a book about getting sober and becoming a professional artist in New York City--cartoonist Julia Wertz returns home to Northern California where she reunites with her family and rekindles a relationship with an ex-boyfriend. After a surprise pregnancy and a marriage proposal, Julia settles (somewhat reluctantly) into a quiet life in a small town. But as 2020 approaches, her world, and the world at large, takes a sharp turn toward unexpected chaos. Through comic vignettes, essays, and diary doodles, Julia recounts the events of her pregnancy and its attendant body horror, a miscarriage, family trauma, marriage, a life-altering accident, and the joy and surprises of parenthood as it all unfolds against the backdrop of local wildfires and a global pandemic. The result of this unconventional collection is a heart-wrenching and hilarious story of adversity, resilience, and, ultimately, love.Review Quotes: "Reading Julia's book, I found profound recognition and empathy for the young parent I once was. Bury Me Already is honest, funny, sad, and full of love, love most of all, in all its most complex routes that run from one person to another. Julia has been drawing her own life for decades now. Her generosity is second to none, both with her own life to the reader and to those whose lives appear in the pages. Her storytelling impulses are well honed, her voice is as distinct as ever, and she has never been better than this."--Kate Beaton, author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands