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Qualification - A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps
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Qualification - A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps
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Qualification
A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps
Author: David Heatley
Overview
From acclaimed artist and memoirist David Heatley comes Qualification, a darkly funny and brutally honest graphic memoir about his unconventional relationship with 12-Step programs.
Raised by parents who themselves turned to recovery—his father a sexually repressed alcoholic and his mother a compulsive overeater—Heatley grew up in an atmosphere steeped in dysfunction. As an adult, he found himself pulled into the world of recovery meetings: Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous—sometimes for problems he didn’t even have.
With sharp black-and-white drawings and unflinching self-revelation, Heatley chronicles his ironic “addiction” to recovery, his messy inner struggles, and the complicated relationships he develops along the way. At once unsettling, hilarious, and deeply human, Qualification is far more than twelve steps—it’s a graphic exploration of identity, addiction, and the imperfect search for meaning.
Why You’ll Love It
- A raw, ironic, and darkly humorous look at recovery culture
- Combines memoir with striking graphic art
- Honest exploration of addiction, family dysfunction, and identity
- Balances humor and heaviness with cathartic storytelling
- Perfect for readers who enjoy graphic memoirs like Maus or Fun Home
Reviews
“Heatley is a great, dark, funny, truth teller. Qualification reveals how complex humans are, how full of contradictions, what a life-time struggle it is to sort it all out, a test at which no one ever fully succeeds. I could deeply identify with Heatley’s alienation, his honest self revelations, his humor. His observations of other people and the unfolding events in his life make for a powerful graphic story.” — R. Crumb
“This graphic narrative, rich in detail and reflection, shouldn’t be read quickly in one sitting but rather savored. Heatley powerfully demonstrates that when lives are messiest, art remains cathartic, even redemptive.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“One of the most unflinchingly honest and emotionally raw memoirs ever written . . . Readers will find themselves moved by this stunning memoir, and perhaps even grateful for the author’s refusal to shy away from depicting the complexity of his ongoing development as an artist and a human being.” — Tom Batten, Library Journal (starred review)
“Both sobering and spirit-lifting . . . Heatley (My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down) recounts in squirmy, funny detail a chaotic childhood that leads to an ironic ‘addiction’ to recovery programs in this ultra-candid memoir.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Acclaimed artist David Heatley delivers a heavy but self-revelatory examination of 12-step programs and the nature of addiction. . . . A masterful inventory of a life lived in search of intangible purpose.” — Zack Ruskin, Shelf Awareness
“The payoffs and pitfalls of a lifetime spent in 12-step programs are portrayed with brutal candor in Heatley’s unflinching graphic memoir of his decades-long search for solutions to his vices.” — Booklist
About the Author
David Heatley is an acclaimed artist whose comics and illustrations have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker and in The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney's, and Best American Comics (as a cover artist). His first graphic memoir, My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, was published in multiple countries. He lives in Jackson Heights, New York, with his wife, Rebecca Gopoian, and their two children.
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