Dans cette autobiographie sarcastique, la célèbre bédéaste américaine Julia Wertz raconte ses tentatives aléatoires de sobriété et le cycle incessant, étonnamment drôle, et parfois absurde, de la dépendance et de la guérison. Une longue épopée qui va durer cinq ans et durant laquelle se succèdent des séances de thérapie de groupe, des rechutes, des aventures désastreuses et une expulsion sans ménagement de son appartement à New York. Loin du témoignage édifiant de la guérison de la toxicomanie, " Impossible People " raconte que la sobriété est un chemin semé d'embûches, qui alterne les tentatives et les rechutes.

In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery. Opening at the culmination of a disastrous trip to Puerto Rico, the first page of Impossible People finds Julia standing stupefied in the middle of the jungle beside a rental Jeep she's just crashed. From this moment, the story flashes back to the beginning of her five-year journey towards sobriety that includes group therapy sessions, relapses, an ill-fated relationship, terrible dates, and an unceremonious eviction from her New York City apartment. Far from the typical addiction narrative that follows an upward trajectory from rock bottom to rehab to recovery, Impossible People portrays the lesser told but more common story: That the road to recover is not always linear. With unflinching honesty, Wertz details the arduous, frustrating, and hilarious story of trying and failing and trying again.