Amy Kurzweil's comics appear in The New Yorker and other publications. Her series GutterFACE is hosted by the literary webcast drDOCTOR and her short stories have appeared in The Toast, Washington Square Review, Hobart, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She teaches writing and comics at Parsons School of Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Amy lives in Brooklyn.
Nominated for the JewCie Award for Fictional Narrative
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A Kirkus Reviews Best of 2016 Selection
A Junior Library Guild Fall 2016 Selection
"A debut that enriches and extends the potential of graphic
narrative." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Flying Couch is a wry and deeply moving exploration of what the
Holocaust means to the descendants of survivors. Kurzweil artfully
weaves her grandmother's survivor testimony within her own coming
of age story." —LitReactor
"Beautiful and strong." —Miriam Katin, author of Letting It Go
"Flying Couch is perfect. It's perceptive, emotionally on point,
surprising and funny in its details, told in an intuitive way
that's completely direct, and about something that matters. This is
an important book." —Liana Finck, author of The Bintel Brief
"Flying Couch is a moving, intricate story of identity and family
history." —Ariel Schrag, author of Likewise and Awkward and
Definition
"I read Flying Couch in one sitting, without moving, literally
laughed and literally cried." —Rachel Fershleiser, co–editor of the
New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning
"Amy Kurzweil's moving debut is a story of trauma and survival, and
a search for identity and belonging. Fluctuating, in words and
images, from the bubbly to the intense, this graphic memoir exposes
the complicated and powerful ways we are shaped by the histories
and relationships that anchor us." —Tahneer Oksman, author of How
Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?
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