Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

In Commute, we follow author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and from work, punctuated by recollections of sexual encounters as well asmemories of her battle with alcoholism, addiction, and recovery. As shemoves through the world navigating banal, familiar, and sometimesuncomfortable interactions with the familiar-faced strangers she seesdaily, Williams weaves together a riveting collection of flashbacks. Herrecollections highlight the indefinable moments when lines are crossedand a woman must ask herself if the only way to avoid being objectifiedis to simply cease to draw any attention to her physical being. Shedelves into the gray space that lives between consent and assault andtenderly explores the complexity of the shame, guilt, vulnerability, andresponsibility attached to both.