Free People Book Club, "Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness" by Kristen Radtke
Description
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
by Kristen Radtke
(Graphic Novel, 352 pages)
We meet weekly on Monday, starting April 22 to May 27, 2024, 5:00 - 6:00pm PST via Google Meet. Please indicate in checkout if you'd like us to send you the book, regardless of ability to contribute. And, please let us know you accommodations during checkout as well. A meeting link will be sent upon registration.
Description:
"From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This—a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society.
There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns.
In Seek You, Kristen Radtke’s wide-ranging exploration of our inner lives and public selves, Radtke digs into the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains. Through the lenses of gender and violence, technology and art, Radtke ushers us through a history of loneliness and longing, and shares what feels impossible to share.
Ranging from the invention of the laugh-track to the rise of Instagram, the bootstrap-pulling cowboy to the brutal experiments of Harry Harlow, Radtke investigates why we engage with each other, and what we risk when we turn away. With her distinctive, emotionally-charged drawings and deeply empathetic prose, Kristen Radtke masterfully shines a light on some of our most vulnerable and sublime moments, and asks how we might keep the spaces between us from splitting entirely."