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Bad Habits: A Love Story
Author(s): Cristy C. Road (Author)
- Publisher: Soft Skull Press
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2008
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 1593762151
- ISBN-13: 9781593762155
Book Description
Twenty-five-year-old graphic artist Cristy Road embarks on an uncensored and largely autobiographical tour of an underground world, one full of wild characters and personal revolutions. In her circle, drugs are cheap, ubiquitous, and sometimes feel like the only way out, and Road’s street psychopharmacology results in experiences that are both revelatory and tragic. Writing in a tradition of some of the finest transgressive authors, such as Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs, and Kathy Acker, Road depicts the damaged soul and psyche of her young protagonist with language as violent as the street and sex as raw as the language. Somewhere along this hyperreal tour, our heroine learns to leave her bad habits behind and emerge stronger and more independent, clean and open to love.
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Review
“A party on the page, or a riot, or a revolution.” — Michelle Tea
About the Author
Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American artist, writer, and musician. In early 2006, Road released her first illustrated novel, Indestructible, a 96-page narrative about high school. In 2008, she released Bad Habits, an illustrated story about healing from abuse; and lastly in 2013, Spit and Passion, a coming-out memoir about Cuban identity, discovering Green Day, and surviving in the closet. Road’s most recent project is The Next World Tarot, a 78-card tarot deck detailing themes of justice, resilience, accountability, and reclaimed magic. Road lives in Brooklyn, New York.
