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Impossible People Four Walls Eight Windows In Pippi Won’t Grow UpBy Julia Wertz. Published by Black Dog. Hardcover, 320 pages, B&W, 2023. In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery. Opening at the culmination of a disastrous trip to Puerto Rico, the first page of Impossible People finds Julia standing stupefied in