_A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK_From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun HomeAll her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret.The secret to superhuman strength.She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weight lifting - you name it, she's tried it. "e,Oh, to be self-sufficient! Hard as a ...