Just another meat-eating dirtbag: a memoir

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Publisher
Street Noise Books
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English

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A rough-and-tumble Iraq War veteran is young and in love, and the last thing on his mind is food and the ethics of eating meat. But when his girlfriend becomes a vegetarian and animal rights activist, suddenly food is all he thinks about. 

A true story of how love and vegetarianism can triumph over all else. Love, heartache, and the rest of the ingredients that make a reader laugh, smile, stop-and-think, are all found in this enthralling graphic memoir. Amidst the stories of love and frustration, there are treatises on food, vegetarianism, and the ethics of the animal rights movement (some of it juxtaposed against Michael’s graphic wartime experiences). Told with Michael’s sardonic perspective and the delightful artwork of debut graphic novelist Chai Simone, this is a journey of true love gone temporarily astray.

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Simone, Chair illustrator
ISBN
9781951491192
195149119

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"Love is the absolute worst," writes stand-up comic Anthony (Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir) in the opening pages of his wisecracking memoir about trying something only love could convince him to consider: vegetarianism. His girlfriend, Coconut, an empathetic nurse who "will draw pictures of people's auras" becomes a militant animal rights activist, to the dismay of Anthony, an at-first unrepentant carnivore whose experiences working in a field hospital in Iraq leave him desensitized to gruesome slaughterhouse videos. "It's hard being with someone who thinks you're a murderer," Anthony admits. Inspired by the questionable pickup artists he once followed, he crafts a plan: pretend to convert to vegetarianism and destroy Coconut's anti-meat arguments from the inside, a mission he dubs Operation Tofu Horse. Amid friends' skepticism, guerilla animal rights activism, revelations about body image issues, and education about living a meat-free life, the couple's desire for mutual understanding gradually wins out over their rival conversion plans. Anthony's cocky, chatty voice is complemented by Simone's vibrantly colored drawings and keen eye for gesture and character detail. Whether or not this missive changes minds about meat-eating, it's a winning argument for empathy, concluding that love can sometimes be the absolute best, too. Agent: Matthew Carnicelli, Carnecelli Literary Management. (Nov.)

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"Love is the absolute worst," writes stand-up comic Anthony (Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir) in the opening pages of his wisecracking memoir about trying something only love could convince him to consider: vegetarianism. His girlfriend, Coconut, an empathetic nurse who "will draw pictures of people's auras" becomes a militant animal rights activist, to the dismay of Anthony, an at-first unrepentant carnivore whose experiences working in a field hospital in Iraq leave him desensitized to gruesome slaughterhouse videos. "It's hard being with someone who thinks you're a murderer," Anthony admits. Inspired by the questionable pickup artists he once followed, he crafts a plan: pretend to convert to vegetarianism and destroy Coconut's anti-meat arguments from the inside, a mission he dubs Operation Tofu Horse. Amid friends' skepticism, guerilla animal rights activism, revelations about body image issues, and education about living a meat-free life, the couple's desire for mutual understanding gradually wins out over their rival conversion plans. Anthony's cocky, chatty voice is complemented by Simone's vibrantly colored drawings and keen eye for gesture and character detail. Whether or not this missive changes minds about meat-eating, it's a winning argument for empathy, concluding that love can sometimes be the absolute best, too. Agent: Matthew Carnicelli, Carnecelli Literary Management. (Nov.)

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