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Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Kristen Radtke

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Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

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Graphic meditation on societal and personal solitude.

If you've ever felt adrift in a sea of social media and crowded streets, yet profoundly alone, "Seek You" offers a visually and emotionally resonant journey that mirrors our own struggles with isolation. Kristen Radtke's illustrations and narrative are like silent companions in your exploration of what it means to be lonely in an era that promises constant connection. Her book could be the empathetic friend you didn't know you needed, peeling back layers of societal loneliness that often go unspoken.

  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction Finalist (2022)
  • Kirkus Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novels & Comics (2021)
  • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

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ISBN: 9781524748067
Author: Kristen Radtke
Publisher: Pantheon
Date of Publication: 2021-07-13
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.99
(rated by 9129 readers)

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.
 

Graphic meditation on societal and personal solitude.

If you've ever felt adrift in a sea of social media and crowded streets, yet profoundly alone, "Seek You" offers a visually and emotionally resonant journey that mirrors our own struggles with isolation. Kristen Radtke's illustrations and narrative are like silent companions in your exploration of what it means to be lonely in an era that promises constant connection. Her book could be the empathetic friend you didn't know you needed, peeling back layers of societal loneliness that often go unspoken.

  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction Finalist (2022)
  • Kirkus Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novels & Comics (2021)
  • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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