All My Friends Are Superheroes (Anniversary)

Andrew Kaufman

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All My Friends Are Superheroes (Anniversary)

All My Friends Are Superheroes (Anniversary)

Andrew Kaufman

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Description

"This book is like a kiss in the afternoon sun." - Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?

A tenth anniversary edition of the worldwide cult favorite, now with new material and illustrations.

All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding she was hypnotized to believe Tom is invisible. Six months later, she's sure Tom has abandoned her. With no idea Tom's beside her, she boards an airplane, determined to leave the heartbreak behind. He has till they land to make her see him.

This tenth anniversary edition adds short stories, illustrations, and a foreword to the cult classic that has been a bestseller in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden.

Critical Reviews

"All My Friends Are Superheroes is a breeze to read, as quick of wit and light on its feet as Spider-Man." - Quill & Quire


"This book is like a kiss in the afternoon sun. Somebody should write Mr. Kaufman a letter and thank him for his tender heart and the way he puts things down so gently. I expect this story will replace boxes of chocolates and flowers in courting rituals to come." - Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?


"Tender and brutal, optimistic and despairing, this modern fable by the author of the cult hit All My Friends Are Superheroes takes a fresh look at what it means to fall into, and out of, love." - Hamilton Review of Books


"All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman: It's a beautiful short story that I picked up off the shelf and stood there until I was about to miss my train. I bought it, ran for my train, and finished it before I got home. It's a wonderful world where lots of people have a strange and unique superpower. Our main character has no such power but on his wedding to a woman who can make anything perfect her ex uses his power of suggestion to make her new husband invisible to her. The book is his desperate attempt to break this curse before she gives up on her husband and makes a new life without him 'perfect' by forgetting him completely. It's strange and it's wonderful and I love it." - BuzzFeed

Publishing Information

Publisher: Coach House Books
Pub date: 2013-05-07
Length: 140 pages

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