Name: In-Store: Julia Wertz: Bury Me Already (It's Nice Down Here) w/ Emily Gould
Start: 2026-04-15T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-15T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Books Are Magic Montague

$In-Store: Julia Wertz: Bury Me Already (It's Nice Down Here) w\/ Emily Gould$

"I'd line up to read any book she writes, but I'm so grateful she gave us this one." —Priyanka Mattoo, author of Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones
About this Event

Event guidelines:

Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.
Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
A signing will follow the talk.
Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/KMj7rU5KQz8
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Raw, honest, and hilarious, Bury Me Already (It's Nice Down Here) chronicles the joy and horror of becoming a mother during challenging times.

In this follow-up to the acclaimed memoir Impossible People—a book about getting sober and becoming a professional artist in New York City—cartoonist Julia Wertz returns home to Northern California where she reunites with her family and rekindles a relationship with an ex-boyfriend. After a surprise pregnancy and a marriage proposal, Julia settles (somewhat reluctantly) into a quiet life in a small town. But as 2020 approaches, her world, and the world at large, takes a sharp turn toward unexpected chaos.

Through comic vignettes, essays, and diary doodles, Julia recounts the events of her pregnancy and its attendant body horror, a miscarriage, family trauma, marriage, a life-altering accident, and the joy and surprises of parenthood as it all unfolds against the backdrop of local wildfires and a global pandemic. The result of this unconventional collection is a heart-wrenching and hilarious story of adversity, resilience, and, ultimately, love.

Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, and part-time urban explorer. Her books include The Fart Party, Museum of Mistakes, Drinking at the Movies, The Infinite Wait and Other Stories, Tenements, Towers, & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City and Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She lives in Northern California with her partner, Oliver, and their son, Felix.

Emily Gould is the author of three books, most recently the novel Perfect Tunes. With Ruth Curry she co-created Emily Books, a feminist imprint of Coffee House press. She is a features writer at New York magazine.