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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Nov 2022
ISBN:9781771667968
publisher: Book*hug Press

Cyclettes

by Tree Abraham

tagged: personal memoirs, bicycling, essays & travelogues, buddhist
Description

What does it mean to be happy, to be sated, to live a meaningful life? Is wanderlust curable? Is depression? Echoing the sensation of riding a bicycle, Cyclettes is a multidisciplinary contemplation on the borderlands of adulthood.

Part travelogue, part philosophical musing, Tree Abraham's work probes the millennial experience, asking what a young life can be when unshackled from traditional role expectations yet still living in consistent economic and environmental uncertainty.

Text is interspersed between drawings, scientific charts, ephemera, maps, arcane designs, and diagrams of cycles—of vehicles and of life, from the Buddhist Eightfold path to patterns of depression, desire, and motion. The result is a disarming, welcoming work that asks us to consider what the interflux of exploration and ennui mean to our locality within the universe.

Cyclettes is an original, insightful artifact of modern life.

About the Author

Tree Abraham

TREE ABRAHAM is an Ottawa-born, Brooklyn-based writer, art director, and book designer. Her works experiment with collaged essays and mixed media visuals. She is also the author of the creative nonfiction book Cyclettes.

Awards
  • Short-listed, VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award
  • Winner, Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design: Prose Non-fiction
Editorial Review

“Equal parts whimsical and philosophical, Cyclettes extends beyond conventional narrative with illustrations, collages, photographs and other design elements.” —The New York Times

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