On sale date: July 2, 2024
A two-wheeled journey across the landscape of America, and through the heart and mind of an artist.
Eleanor Davis's bike tour from Tucson, Arizona to Athens, Georgia is a quest of epic proportions — not just geographically, which it surely is, but inwardly as well. While facing off formidable headwinds, drivers with reckless abandon, and screaming knee pain, the author confronts an even greater challenge — her own mind. Life on two wheels teaches her many lessons, and she narrates them with keen observation and self-deprecating candor through a series of funny, touching vignettes. Companionship from fellow travelers and the generosity of colorful strangers propel Davis along the open road. A tale of serendipitous encounters, surprising friendship, perseverance, and tenderness, Eleanor Davis's You and a Bike and a Road reveals the power, and truth, of the most efficient mode of human transportation — a bicycle.
Praise
"Davis's comics have an immediacy that pulls the reader in. That even these on-the-go comics demonstrate her mastery of line and shape is testament to how superb a cartoonist she is." — Zainab Akhtar - The Guardian
"You and a Bike and a Road is a lovely, slow book about going on a journey — not an epic, world-dominating circumnavigation, but something quieter and more intimate." — Jon Day - The New York Review of Books
"You and a Bike and a Road is Eleanor Davis' personal exploration of roadside America, US immigration politics, and the autobiographical comics form." — Chris Gavaler - PopMatters
"You and a Bike and a Road offers a refreshing take not only on long-distance cycling, but also about the psychological benefits of doing hard things and getting out of your rut." — The Arts STL
"Although Davis's cycling journey takes place in the spring several years ago, her descriptions of nature and the nature of the trip itself have that end-of-summer feeling to them that make you want to grab a bike and go." — Ania Hull - Santa Fe-New Mexican
Specs
- Pages
- 172
- Format
- Hardback
- Color
- Black-and-white.
- Dimensions
- 6.5" × 9.6"
- ISBN-13
- 9781683969419