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Title Seek you : a journey through American loneliness / Kristen Radtke.
Publisher New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Description 352 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Edition First Edition.


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 LW-Hillside  741.5973 SEEK Nearby on shelf  30641006355809 (none)  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-352).
Summary "When Kristen Radtke was in her twenties, she learned that, as her father was growing up, he would crawl onto his roof in rural Wisconsin and send signals out on his ham radio. Those CQ calls were his attempt to reach somebody--anybody--who would respond. In Seek You, Radtke uses this image as her jumping off point into a piercing exploration of loneliness and the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another. She looks at the very real current crisis of loneliness through the lenses of gender, violence, technology, and art. Ranging from the invention of the laugh-track to Instagram to Harry Harlow's experiments in which infant monkeys were given inanimate surrogate mothers, Radtke uncovers all she can about how we engage with friends, family, and strangers alike, and what happens--to us and to them--when we disengage. With her distinctive, emotionally charged drawings and unflinchingly sharp prose, Kristen Radtke masterfully reframes some of our most vulnerable and sublime moments"-- Provided by publisher.
Other edition Online version: Radtke, Kristen, Seek you New York : Pantheon Books, 2021. 9781524748050
Subject Loneliness -- United States.
Social isolation -- United States.
Loneliness -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Interpersonal relations -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Social psychology -- Comic books, strips, etc.
United States -- Social life and customs.
Genre Graphic novels.
Other title Journey through American loneliness
ISBN 9781524748067
1524748064