Sohini Kay’s compelling debut graphic memoir This Beautiful, Ridiculous City offers an inspiring, entirely agreeable perspective on New York City as a crucible for female self-discovery. Kay, an Indian PhD student writes about navigating the city in the last decade, and using New York as a backdrop for personal transformation.

The city of New York has been written about by numerous writers, artists, painters. With her debut This Beautiful, Ridiculous City Kay ventures to write alongside her illustrations about the storied city in the league of works like Lauren Elkin's Flaneuse, Bill Hayes' Insomniac City and Olivia Laing's Lonely City. Written as a memoir, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City creates a vision for a liveable city for a woman from India who looks to the US to build a new home, while in exile.