This Beautiful Ridiculous City

"Visually, “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City” is a tour de force. Sohini utilizes a bright and vivid color palette, paired with exquisitely appealing geometric page layouts, to depict subjects from city landscapes and domestic interiors to diagrammatic cultural and historical mini lessons...By applying her singular and attentive voice and aesthetic to an iconic place, Sohini reminds readers that every representation of New York is a kind of revealing fantasy."

—The Washington Post

"Rarely have I seen someone capture a feeling so well — in text or visuals — as Sohini does with New York’s beauty, and in building out the emotional landscape for each part of her life through her masterful command of form, flow and color."

—AP News

“Sohini’s art—drawn over ‘twelve or more hours a day for six months straight’—electrifyingly bursts in full color with architecturally meticulous details throughout. Her love letter to ‘this beautiful, ridiculous city’ proves to be a vivid celebration of survival and belonging.”

—Booklist

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In a New York minute, Kay Sohini vanquished my doubts. Her debut book — a graphic memoir called This Beautiful, Ridiculous City — affirms the enduring power of New York and the power of literature to give people the courage to cross all manner of borders.
—NPR

"Kay Sohini’s account of leaving Kolkata and sadness behind to build a life in the Big Apple is a stirring tribute to the place that saved her."

—The Guardian

'Sohini's book, with its glorious, candy-coloured drawings of the Empire State Building, Grand Central Station and the Gimbels Skybridge, presents its allure in a fresh, enchanting way, while also offering a reminder that Sohini is one of a long line of women who have found themselves in the city, made their mark, remade themselves."

—Financial Times

“Sohini’s love of New York and evolving understanding of herself within its powerful context work in concert for a radiant read.”

—Library Journal